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Split smie-indent-calculate into more manageable chunks. * lisp/emacs-lisp/smie.el (smie-indent-virtual, smie-indent-fixindent) (smie-indent-comment, smie-indent-after-keyword, smie-indent-keyword) (smie-indent-close, smie-indent-comment-continue, smie-indent-bob) (smie-indent-exps): Extract from smie-indent-calculate. (smie-indent-functions): New var. (smie-indent-functions): Use them.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:48:10 -0400 (2010-06-03)
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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide for the DJGPP (a.k.a. MS-DOS) port
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3 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
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4 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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7 The DJGPP port of GNU Emacs builds and runs on plain DOS and also on
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8 all versions of MS-Windows from version 3.X on, including Windows XP,
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12 To build and install the DJGPP port, you need to have the DJGPP ports
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13 of GCC (the GNU C compiler), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the
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14 remarks in CONFIG.BAT for more information about locations and
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15 versions. The Emacs FAQ (see info/efaq) includes pointers to Internet
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16 sites where you can find the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS".
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17 The configuration step (see below) will test for these utilities and
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18 will refuse to continue if any of them isn't found.
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21 subdirectory using the various targets in the lisp/Makefile file
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22 requires additional utilities: `find' (from Findutils), GNU `echo' and
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23 `test' (from Sh-utils or Coreutils), `ls' and `chmod' (from Fileutils
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33 when you unpack the distribution and compile it. With DJGPP v2.0 or
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51 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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66 your system.)
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69 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version.
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71 On plain DOS, unpacking can complain about several directories and
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74 67-character limit on the file-name length imposed by DOS filesystems.
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76 press [Enter] to skip them: they are not needed for the DJGPP build.
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93 CONFIG.BAT stops and prints an error message. If you have DJGPP
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115 config --with-system-malloc msdos
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116 make install
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118 In addition, for Windows Vista you'll need to install Service Pack 1
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119 (SP1) or later and enlarge its DPMI memory limit by setting the value
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120 of this Registry key:
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122 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Wow\DpmiLimit
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124 Create this key if it does not exist. The value is a DWORD; setting
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125 it to 536870912 should let Emacs use up to 512MB of memory.
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127 If you have other problems, either building Emacs or running the
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128 produced binary, look in the file etc/PROBLEMS for some known problems
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129 related to the DJGPP port (search for "MS-DOS").
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130
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131 To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y
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132 directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is
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133 the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following
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134 command:
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135
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136 make bdf INSTALLDIR=..
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138 After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the
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139 fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level
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140 Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by
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141 default.
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142
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143 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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144 directories. Installing the DJGPP port of Emacs moves these
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145 executables to a sibling directory called bin. For example, if you
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146 build in directory C:/emacs, installing moves the executables from
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147 C:/emacs/src and C:/emacs/lib-src to the directory C:/emacs/bin, so
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148 you can then delete the subdirectories C:/emacs/src and
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149 C:/emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only subdirectories you need to
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150 keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you installed intlfonts, keep
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151 the fonts directory and all its subdirectories as well.) The bin
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152 subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory
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153 includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful
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154 if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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156 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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157 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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158 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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159 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
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160 EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
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161 the location of the `info' directory).
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163 Emacs features which require asynchronous subprocesses that depend on
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164 multitasking do not work in the DJGPP port. Synchronous subprocesses
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165 do work, so features such as compilation, grep, and Ispell run
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166 synchronously, unlike on other platforms.
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168 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
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169 corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
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170 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
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171 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp versions 2.01 and later have
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172 these bugs fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.
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175 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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177 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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178 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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179 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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180 (at your option) any later version.
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182 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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183 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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184 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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185 GNU General Public License for more details.
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186
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187 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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188 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.