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(custom-mode-map): Switch back to a sparse keymap.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:06:51 +0000
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1 This directory tree holds version 20.0 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
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2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
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4 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
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5 them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
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6 they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
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7 in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on
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8 how to report bugs.
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10 See the files `etc/NEWS' and `etc/news.texi' for information on new
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11 features and other user-visible changes since the last version of
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12 Emacs.
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14 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on
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15 Unix, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory.
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17 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
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18 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
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20 Reports of bugs in Emacs should be sent to the mailing list
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21 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs
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22 manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS'
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23 in this directory explains how you can find and read that section
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24 using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS'
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25 for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages.
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27 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in
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28 capital letters, which you should look at when installing GNU Emacs.
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30 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
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31 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
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32 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the
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33 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
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34 detailed information.
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36 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
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37 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has configuration
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38 requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy
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39 marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it
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40 may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when
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41 possible.
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43 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
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44 `Makefile'.
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46 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar
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47 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files
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48 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs,
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49 this script will help you distribute your version to others.
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51 There are several subdirectories:
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52
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53 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and its
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54 primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions).
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55 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
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56 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by
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57 or with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
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58 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
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59 Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote
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60 database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man'
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61 subdirectories are architecture-independent too.
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62
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63 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
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64 `man' holds the source code for the Emacs manual.
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66 Note that the Emacs Lisp manual sources are distributed separately.
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67 (They are twice as large as the Emacs manual in the man subdirectory.)
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69 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
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70 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.
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71 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
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72 to running Emacs on Windows NT.