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Clarify bug reporting. Delete VMS section. Improve somew wording.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:16:14 +0000
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1 This directory tree holds version 22.0.91 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, 1 This directory tree holds version 22.0.91 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. 2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
3
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.
7
8 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
9 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
10
11 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
12 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
3 13
4 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report 14 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
5 them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since 15 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 16 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 17 in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released
8 how to report bugs. 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.
9 21
10 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other 22 See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
11 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs. 23 to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
12 24 can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
13 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on 25 Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
14 various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this 26 relating to GNU packages.
15 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
27 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital 28 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
28 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU 29 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
29 Emacs. 30 Emacs.
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84 85
85 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools 86 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
86 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The 87 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
87 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should 88 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
88 list the required tools. 89 list the required tools.
89
90 VMS info:
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92 Emacs 19.x and above do not compile out of the box on OpenVMS.
93 Richard Levitte <levitte@lp.se> is distributing and maintaining a
94 version of Emacs (currently based on version 19.28, but soon moving to
95 19.34 and then 20.1) that compiles and works on OpenVMS 5.5 and above
96 on both VAX and Alpha architectures. For more information see
97
98 http://www.lp.se/gnu-vms/software/released1/emacs.html
99
100 There is also some effort going on with Emacs 21. Source code is
101 available at ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/vms/emacs/. Look for most
102 recent stuff with ls -lta.
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104 It is a working "development" version (editing and much more works).
105 More developers are needed; contact roart@nvg.ntnu.no.