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author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:24:46 +0000 |
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35197 | 1 This directory tree holds version 21.0.96 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, |
25856 | 2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. |
3 | |
4 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report | |
5 them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since | |
6 they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or | |
7 in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on | |
8 how to report bugs. | |
9 | |
10 See the files `etc/NEWS' and `etc/news.texi' for information on new | |
11 features and other user-visible changes since the last version of | |
12 Emacs. | |
13 | |
14 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on | |
15 Unix, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory. | |
16 | |
17 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that | |
18 occur in building, installing and running Emacs. | |
19 | |
20 Reports of bugs in Emacs should be sent to the mailing list | |
21 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs | |
22 manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' | |
23 in this directory explains how you can find and read that section | |
24 using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' | |
25 for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages. | |
26 | |
27 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in | |
28 capital letters, which you should look at when installing GNU Emacs. | |
29 | |
30 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the | |
31 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file | |
32 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the | |
33 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more | |
34 detailed information. | |
35 | |
36 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to | |
37 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has configuration | |
38 requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy | |
39 marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it | |
40 may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when | |
41 possible. | |
42 | |
43 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create | |
44 `Makefile'. | |
45 | |
46 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar | |
47 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files | |
48 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs, | |
49 this script will help you distribute your version to others. | |
50 | |
51 There are several subdirectories: | |
52 | |
53 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and its | |
54 primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions). | |
55 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else). | |
56 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by | |
57 or with Emacs, like movemail and etags. | |
58 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files | |
59 Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote | |
60 database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man' | |
61 subdirectories are architecture-independent too. | |
62 | |
63 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs. | |
64 `man' holds the source code for the Emacs manual. | |
65 | |
66 Note that the Emacs Lisp manual sources are distributed separately. | |
67 (They are twice as large as the Emacs manual in the man subdirectory.) | |
68 | |
69 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG. | |
70 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS. | |
71 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain | |
72 to running Emacs on Windows NT. | |
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73 `mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building |
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74 and running Emacs on the Mac. |