Mercurial > emacs
changeset 74308:c3e14b761fe6
Clarify bug reporting. Delete VMS section.
Improve somew wording.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:16:14 +0000 |
| parents | f367608cd9d6 |
| children | d5e613255c8a |
| files | README |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README Tue Nov 28 20:14:52 2006 +0000 +++ b/README Tue Nov 28 20:16:14 2006 +0000 @@ -1,28 +1,29 @@ This directory tree holds version 22.0.91 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. -You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report -them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since -they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or -in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on -how to report bugs. +The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU +Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the +entire Emacs file tree. See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs. -The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on -various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this -directory. - The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that occur in building, installing and running Emacs. -Reports of bugs in Emacs should be sent to the mailing list -bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs -manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' -in this directory explains how you can find and read that section -using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' -for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages. +You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report +them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since +they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or +in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released +versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. +Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions +from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bugs@gnu.org. + +See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how +to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you +can find and read that section using the Info files that come with +Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists +relating to GNU packages. The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU @@ -86,20 +87,3 @@ that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The platform-specific README files and installation instructions should list the required tools. - -VMS info: - -Emacs 19.x and above do not compile out of the box on OpenVMS. -Richard Levitte <levitte@lp.se> is distributing and maintaining a -version of Emacs (currently based on version 19.28, but soon moving to -19.34 and then 20.1) that compiles and works on OpenVMS 5.5 and above -on both VAX and Alpha architectures. For more information see - - http://www.lp.se/gnu-vms/software/released1/emacs.html - -There is also some effort going on with Emacs 21. Source code is -available at ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/vms/emacs/. Look for most -recent stuff with ls -lta. - -It is a working "development" version (editing and much more works). -More developers are needed; contact roart@nvg.ntnu.no.