epic4 for Debian ---------------- A handful of miscellaneous notes: * Eight bit characters - If you're having trouble typing or seeing eight bit characters in epic especially under screen, it's probably because one of epic's sets is not set properly. Try adding to your rc file: ^set EIGHT_BIT_CHARACTERS on ^set HIGH_BIT_ESCAPE 0 If that doesn't fix it, the script might be overriding the settings. If so, change it at the input prompt and use the script's save command (traditionally /save) If that doesn't fix it, take a plastic foam rubber object such as a Pool Noodle and proceed to *FWOP!* the author of the script mercilessly. + Note from (Jeremy Nelson): due to some unfortunate signed-unsigned casting conflicts, it is not possible for epic users to input character 255. (...) To work around this problem, add this to startup script: /eval bind $chr(255) parse_command {xtype -l $chr(255)} bind ^@ parse_command {xtype -l $chr(255)} + Startup scripts: in absence of ~/.epicrc epic4 would use ~/.ircrc, but the primary startup script is the ~/.epicrc or anything that the environment variable $EPICRC points to. * If you've installed an epic4-script-* package, some default script will be run if you have neither ~/.epicrc nor ~/.ircrc files. There are a few script packages for epic4 now, have a look at one of them for making your own. examples/wrapper.irc contains the base wrapper to use if your script isn't totally global-install-friendly. + TCL support explicitly disabled until someone needs that. Please file a wishlist bug, if you need TCL compiled in. + New key binding mechanism: there is completely new key binding mechanism in epic 1.1.7. The new mechanism is clear and easy-to-use. IT'S ALSO INCOMPATIBLE WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS. THIS IS NOT A BUG. Support for old META-x bindings is removed. Read the /usr/share/doc/epic4/keys for more precise information. In short, what to do if your script suddenly stops working: Locate something like: BIND META_CHARACTER Where is a key binding prefix and is a number, e.g. 1, 2, 3. Remove this command or change it to what you like, e.g. you can prevent the prefix itself from being interpreted: BIND ^X NOTHING Now, locate all occurrences of: BIND META- Where is the rest of your chosen key binding. Replace all of these lines with: BIND "^X" The script should work again. (*) Joseph Carter Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:43:08 -0800 (+) Miros/law L. Baran Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:04:43 +0200