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(Top): Mention which Emacs version this FAQ is about. Recommend the latest release. Mention how to get older FAQs. Recommend the Emacs manual. (Guidelines for newsgroup postings): Discourage cross-posts. (Underlining paragraphs): Remove. (Editing MS-DOS files): Remove pre-Emacs 20 information. (Bugs and problems): Update key-binding. (Problems with very large files): Mention 64-bit. (Shell process exits abnormally): Remove. (Problems with Shell Mode): Rename and update. (Spontaneous entry into isearch-mode) (Problems talking to certain hosts): Remove. This is old information, in etc/PROBLEMS if needed. (Emacs takes a long time to visit files, Updating Emacs): Remove. (Dired claims that no file is on this line): Update. (Installing Emacs, Problems building Emacs): Simplify. (Emacs for MS-DOS): Refer to msdos/INSTALL rather than duplicating information. (Emacs for MS-Windows): Rename from "Emacs for Windows". Simplify. (Emacs for Mac OS X): Rename from "Emacs for Apple computers". (JDEE): "JDEE", not "JDE". (Handling C-s and C-q with flow control, Binding C-s and C-q): Remove. This is old information, in etc/PROBLEMS if needed. (stty and Backspace key, Kanji and Chinese characters): Remove. (Right-to-left alphabets): Update section. (Changing the included text prefix): Gnus uses message-yank-prefix. Add cross-reference to Supercite manual. (Saving a copy of outgoing mail): Simplify output file description. (Expanding aliases when sending mail): Refer to Emacs manual. Remove old info about RFC822. Correct description of how to rebuild aliases. (Rmail writes to /var/spool/mail): Update location from /usr/spool/mail. (MIME with Emacs mail packages) (Viewing articles with embedded underlining) (Saving a multi-part Gnus posting, Gnus hangs for a long time): Remove old sections. (Killing based on nonstandard headers): Remove. Scoring is preferable, and is well-documented in the Gnus manual. (Reading news with Emacs): Merge "Learning more about Gnus" into here. (Making Gnus faster): Rename from "Starting Gnus faster". Merge "Catch-up is slow in Gnus" into here.

This directory contains the architecture-independent files used by or
with Emacs.  This includes some text files of documentation for GNU
Emacs or of interest to Emacs users, and the file of dumped docstrings
for Emacs functions and variables.

`forms-d2.dat' is an example data file used by forms-d2.el.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE INFORMATION FOR IMAGE FILES

File: emacs.icon
  Author: Sun Microsystems, Inc
  Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
    Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License: GNU General Public License version 3 or later (see COPYING)