74759
|
1 This directory tree holds version 22.0.92 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
|
25856
|
2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
|
|
3
|
74308
|
4 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
|
|
5 Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the
|
|
6 entire Emacs file tree.
|
25856
|
7
|
36122
e6572f8d3aa8
Document that Texinfo 4.0 or later is required for producing the manual.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
diff
changeset
|
8 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
|
36792
|
9 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
|
25856
|
10
|
|
11 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
|
|
12 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
|
|
13
|
74308
|
14 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
|
|
15 them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
|
|
16 they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
|
|
17 in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released
|
|
18 versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
|
|
19 Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions
|
|
20 from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bugs@gnu.org.
|
|
21
|
|
22 See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
|
|
23 to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
|
|
24 can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
|
|
25 Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
|
|
26 relating to GNU packages.
|
25856
|
27
|
36792
|
28 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
|
|
29 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
|
|
30 Emacs.
|
25856
|
31
|
|
32 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
|
|
33 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
|
|
34 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the
|
|
35 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
|
|
36 detailed information.
|
|
37
|
|
38 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
|
36268
|
39 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
|
|
40 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
|
|
41 reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
|
|
42 configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
|
|
43 `configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
|
|
44 version of autoconf and GNU m4.
|
36122
e6572f8d3aa8
Document that Texinfo 4.0 or later is required for producing the manual.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
diff
changeset
|
45
|
25856
|
46 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
|
|
47 `Makefile'.
|
|
48
|
|
49 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar
|
|
50 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files
|
|
51 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs,
|
|
52 this script will help you distribute your version to others.
|
|
53
|
|
54 There are several subdirectories:
|
|
55
|
42214
|
56 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and
|
49600
|
57 its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
|
42214
|
58 functions).
|
|
59 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
|
49600
|
60 `leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
|
42214
|
61 auxiliary data files required to type international characters
|
|
62 which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
|
|
63 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
|
|
64 with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
|
|
65 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
|
|
66 Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead
|
|
67 quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info',
|
|
68 `man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are
|
|
69 architecture-independent too.
|
|
70 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
|
|
71 `man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
|
|
72 manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
|
|
73 an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
|
46404
|
74 package; you need version 4.2 or later of Texinfo.
|
42214
|
75 `lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
|
41438
|
76 `lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
|
|
77 in Emacs Lisp manual.
|
25856
|
78
|
42214
|
79 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
|
|
80 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.
|
|
81 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
|
|
82 to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP.
|
|
83 `mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building
|
|
84 and running Emacs on the Mac.
|
36122
e6572f8d3aa8
Document that Texinfo 4.0 or later is required for producing the manual.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
diff
changeset
|
85
|
e6572f8d3aa8
Document that Texinfo 4.0 or later is required for producing the manual.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
diff
changeset
|
86 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
|
e6572f8d3aa8
Document that Texinfo 4.0 or later is required for producing the manual.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
diff
changeset
|
87 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
|
e6572f8d3aa8
Document that Texinfo 4.0 or later is required for producing the manual.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
diff
changeset
|
88 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
|
e6572f8d3aa8
Document that Texinfo 4.0 or later is required for producing the manual.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
diff
changeset
|
89 list the required tools.
|