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1 Emacs for Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98/ME |
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7 This directory contains support for compiling and running GNU Emacs on |
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8 Windows NT, Windows 95, and their successors. This port supports all |
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9 of the major functionality of the Unix version, including |
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10 subprocesses, windowing features (fonts, colors, scroll bars, multiple |
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13 Precompiled distributions are also available; ftp to |
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15 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ |
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21 See the INSTALL file in this directory for detailed instructions on |
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22 building and installing Emacs on your system. |
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24 * EXE files produced |
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26 Building and installing Emacs will produce the following executable |
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29 + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run |
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30 as both a text-mode application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI application, |
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33 + runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application |
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36 + emacsclient.exe - A command-line client program that can |
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37 communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server' |
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38 node of the Emacs manul. |
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40 + emacsclientw.exe - A version of emacsclient that does not open |
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41 a command-line window. |
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43 + addpm.exe - A basic installer that creates Start Menu icons for Emacs. |
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44 Running this is optional. |
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46 + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with |
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47 the native shells in various versions of Windows. |
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49 + ctags.exe, etags.exe - Tools for generating tag files. See the |
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50 `Tags' node of the Emacs manual. |
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52 + ebrowse.exe - A tool for generating C++ browse information. See the |
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53 `Ebrowse' manual. |
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55 + ddeclient.exe - A tool for interacting with DDE servers. |
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57 + hexl.exe - A tool for converting files to hex dumps. See the |
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58 `Editing Binary Files' node of the Emacs manual. |
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60 + movemail.exe - A helper application for safely moving mail from |
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61 a mail spool or POP server to a local user mailbox. See the |
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64 + digest-doc.exe, sorted-doc.exe - Tools for rebuilding the |
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69 There is a web page that serves as a FAQ for the Windows port of |
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70 Emacs (a.k.a. NTEmacs) at: |
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74 There is also a mailing list for discussing issues related to this |
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75 port of Emacs. For information about the list, see this Web page: |
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80 help-emacs-windows@gnu.org. (You don't need to subscribe for that.) |
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81 To subscribe to the list or unsubscribe from it, fill the form you |
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82 find at http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows as |
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101 If you encounter a bug in this port of Emacs, we would like to hear |
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108 Use the built in bug reporting functionality in Emacs so that it |
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109 will be seen by the right people. You can use the command M-x |
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110 report-emacs-bug to create and send the bug report, but in some |
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111 cases there is a function to report bugs in a specific package; |
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116 This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
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118 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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119 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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120 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
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123 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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124 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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125 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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126 GNU General Public License for more details. |
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128 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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129 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |