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author | Andrew Innes <andrewi@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:05:02 +0000 |
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38400 | 1 This directory tree holds version 21.0.105 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, |
25856 | 2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. |
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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. | |
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10 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other |
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11 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs. |
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13 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on | |
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14 various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this |
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15 directory. |
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17 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that | |
18 occur in building, installing and running Emacs. | |
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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 | |
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27 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital |
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28 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU |
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29 Emacs. |
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31 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the | |
32 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file | |
33 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the | |
34 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more | |
35 detailed information. | |
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37 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to | |
36268 | 38 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration |
39 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical | |
40 reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked | |
41 configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild | |
42 `configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent | |
43 version of autoconf and GNU m4. | |
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25856 | 45 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create |
46 `Makefile'. | |
47 | |
48 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar | |
49 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files | |
50 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs, | |
51 this script will help you distribute your version to others. | |
52 | |
53 There are several subdirectories: | |
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55 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and its | |
56 primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions). | |
57 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else). | |
58 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by | |
59 or with Emacs, like movemail and etags. | |
60 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files | |
61 Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote | |
62 database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man' | |
63 subdirectories are architecture-independent too. | |
64 | |
65 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs. | |
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66 `man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the |
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67 manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce |
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68 an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo |
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69 package; you need version 4.0 or later of Texinfo. |
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71 Note that the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual sources are distributed |
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72 separately. (They are twice as large as the Emacs Manual in the man |
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73 subdirectory.) |
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75 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG. | |
76 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS. | |
77 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain | |
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78 to running Emacs on Windows NT. |
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79 `mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building |
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80 and running Emacs on the Mac. |
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82 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools |
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83 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The |
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84 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should |
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85 list the required tools. |