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1 | Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
2 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
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6e04fc98 | 6 | This directory tree holds version 22.1.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, |
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7 | customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. |
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9 | The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU |
10 | Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the | |
11 | entire Emacs file tree. | |
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49417719 | 13 | See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other |
d955d095 | 14 | user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs. |
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16 | The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that |
17 | occur in building, installing and running Emacs. | |
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19 | You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report |
20 | them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since | |
21 | they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or | |
22 | in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released | |
23 | versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. | |
24 | Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions | |
25 | from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bugs@gnu.org. | |
26 | ||
27 | See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how | |
28 | to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you | |
29 | can find and read that section using the Info files that come with | |
30 | Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists | |
31 | relating to GNU packages. | |
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33 | The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital |
34 | letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU | |
35 | Emacs. | |
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36 | |
37 | The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the | |
38 | oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file | |
39 | `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the | |
40 | process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more | |
41 | detailed information. | |
42 | ||
43 | The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to | |
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44 | construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration |
45 | requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical | |
46 | reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked | |
47 | configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild | |
48 | `configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent | |
49 | version of autoconf and GNU m4. | |
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51 | The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create |
52 | `Makefile'. | |
53 | ||
54 | The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar | |
55 | file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files | |
56 | appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs, | |
57 | this script will help you distribute your version to others. | |
58 | ||
59 | There are several subdirectories: | |
60 | ||
b0a21bf9 | 61 | `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and |
177c0ea7 | 62 | its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing |
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63 | functions). |
64 | `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else). | |
177c0ea7 | 65 | `leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and |
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66 | auxiliary data files required to type international characters |
67 | which can't be directly produced by your keyboard. | |
68 | `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or | |
69 | with Emacs, like movemail and etags. | |
70 | `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files | |
71 | Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead | |
72 | quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info', | |
73 | `man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are | |
74 | architecture-independent too. | |
75 | `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs. | |
76 | `man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the | |
77 | manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce | |
78 | an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo | |
7f1fa858 | 79 | package; you need version 4.2 or later of Texinfo. |
b0a21bf9 | 80 | `lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual. |
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81 | `lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming |
82 | in Emacs Lisp manual. | |
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84 | `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG. |
85 | `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS. | |
86 | `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain | |
87 | to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP. | |
88 | `mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building | |
89 | and running Emacs on the Mac. | |
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91 | Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools | |
92 | that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The | |
93 | platform-specific README files and installation instructions should | |
94 | list the required tools. | |
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96 | \f | |
97 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
98 | ||
99 | GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
100 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
fca4a5de | 101 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) |
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102 | any later version. |
103 | ||
104 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
105 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
106 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
107 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
108 | ||
109 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
110 | along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the | |
111 | Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, | |
112 | Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |