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1 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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2 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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6 This directory tree holds version 22.0.94 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
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7 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
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9 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
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10 Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the
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11 entire Emacs file tree.
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13 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
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14 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
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16 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
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17 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
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19 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
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20 them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
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21 they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
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22 in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released
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23 versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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24 Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions
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25 from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bugs@gnu.org.
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27 See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
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28 to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
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29 can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
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30 Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
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31 relating to GNU packages.
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33 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
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34 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
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35 Emacs.
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37 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
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38 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
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39 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the
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40 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
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41 detailed information.
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43 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
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44 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
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45 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
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46 reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
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47 configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
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48 `configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
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49 version of autoconf and GNU m4.
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51 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
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52 `Makefile'.
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54 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar
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55 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files
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56 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs,
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57 this script will help you distribute your version to others.
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58
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59 There are several subdirectories:
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61 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and
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62 its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
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63 functions).
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64 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
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65 `leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
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66 auxiliary data files required to type international characters
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67 which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
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68 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
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69 with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
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70 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
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71 Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead
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72 quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info',
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73 `man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are
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75 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
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76 `man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
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77 manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
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78 an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
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80 `lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
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81 `lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
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84 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
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85 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.
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86 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
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88 `mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building
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89 and running Emacs on the Mac.
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91 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
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92 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
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93 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
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94 list the required tools.
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97 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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99 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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100 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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101 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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102 any later version.
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104 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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105 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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106 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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107 GNU General Public License for more details.
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109 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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110 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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111 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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