X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/7a22490f14441898e1c4f6679f5924f097f3bb34..HEAD:/nt/README diff --git a/nt/README b/nt/README index b62dc0b746..14c89a0a17 100644 --- a/nt/README +++ b/nt/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Emacs for Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98/ME - Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. This directory contains support for compiling and running GNU Emacs on @@ -25,15 +25,17 @@ Building and installing Emacs will produce the following executable files in the bin directory. - + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run + + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run as both a text-mode application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI application, it will pop up a command prompt window if run directly from Explorer. + runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application - without popping up a command prompt window. + without popping up a command prompt window. If you create a + desktop shortcut for invoking Emacs, make it point to this + executable, not to emacs.exe. + emacsclient.exe - A command-line client program that can - communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server' + communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server' node of the Emacs manual. + emacsclientw.exe - A version of emacsclient that does not open @@ -42,15 +44,18 @@ + addpm.exe - A basic installer that creates Start Menu icons for Emacs. Running this is optional. - + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with - the native shells in various versions of Windows. - + ctags.exe, etags.exe - Tools for generating tag files. See the - `Tags' node of the Emacs manual. + `Tags' node of the Emacs manual. + ebrowse.exe - A tool for generating C++ browse information. See the `Ebrowse' manual. + Several helper programs are installed in a version-specific + subdirectory of the libexec directory: + + + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with + the native shells in various versions of Windows. + + ddeclient.exe - A tool for interacting with DDE servers. To be invoked as "ddeclient SERVER [TOPIC]", where SERVER is the DDE server name, and sends each line of its standard input to the DDE @@ -58,19 +63,25 @@ supposed to be invoked via the 'call-process-region' Emacs primitive. - + hexl.exe - A tool for converting files to hex dumps. See the + + hexl.exe - A tool for producing hex dumps of binary files. See the `Editing Binary Files' node of the Emacs manual. + movemail.exe - A helper application for safely moving mail from a mail spool or POP server to a local user mailbox. See the `Movemail' node of the Emacs manual. + + profile.exe - A helper program that generates periodic events for + profiling Emacs Lisp code. + + + update-game-score.exe - A utility for updating the score files of + Emacs games. + * Further information - There is a web page that serves as a FAQ for the Windows port of - Emacs (a.k.a. NTEmacs) at: + The FAQ for the MS Windows port of Emacs is distributed with Emacs + (info manual "efaq-w32"), and also available at - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html + http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html There is also a mailing list for discussing issues related to this port of Emacs. For information about the list, see this Web page: @@ -108,11 +119,7 @@ Use the built in bug reporting functionality in Emacs so that it will be seen by the right people. You can use the command M-x - report-emacs-bug to create and send the bug report, but in some - cases there is a function to report bugs in a specific package; - e.g. M-x gnus-bug for Gnus, M-x c-submit-bug-report for C/C++/Java - mode, etc. - + report-emacs-bug to create and send the bug report. This file is part of GNU Emacs.