annotate lisp/README @ 63308:51d38cfbe542

Warn about using "cvs up -kb" if one intends to commit changes. Add a pointer to another site with detailed configure and build instructions. Suggest to look at config.log when configure fails. Add MinGW Make 3.80 to the list of successful combinations.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:31:29 +0000
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1 This directory contains source code for the parts of Emacs that are
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2 written in Emacs Lisp. *.el files are Emacs Lisp source, and the
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3 corresponding *.elc files are byte-compiled versions. Byte-compiled
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4 files are architecture-independent.
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6 The term subdirectory contains Lisp files that customize Emacs for
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7 certain terminal types. When Emacs starts, it checks the TERM
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8 environment variable to get the terminal type and loads
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9 `term/${TERM}.el' if it exists.
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11 The other subdirectories hold Lisp packages grouped by their general
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12 purpose.
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