1 | This directory tree holds version 20.7 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, |
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2 | customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. |
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4 | You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report |
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5 | them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since |
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6 | they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or |
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7 | in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on |
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8 | how to report bugs. |
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10 | See the files `etc/NEWS' and `etc/news.texi' for information on new |
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11 | features and other user-visible changes since the last version of |
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12 | Emacs. |
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14 | The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on |
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15 | Unix, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory. |
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16 | |
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17 | The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that |
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18 | occur in building, installing and running Emacs. |
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20 | Reports of bugs in Emacs should be sent to the mailing list |
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21 | bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs |
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22 | manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' |
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23 | in this directory explains how you can find and read that section |
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24 | using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' |
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25 | for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages. |
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26 | |
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27 | The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in |
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28 | capital letters, which you should look at when installing GNU Emacs. |
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30 | The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the |
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31 | oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file |
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32 | `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the |
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33 | process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more |
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34 | detailed information. |
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35 | |
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36 | The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to |
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37 | construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has configuration |
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38 | requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy |
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39 | marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it |
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40 | may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when |
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41 | possible. |
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42 | |
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43 | The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create |
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44 | `Makefile'. |
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45 | |
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46 | The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar |
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47 | file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files |
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48 | appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs, |
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49 | this script will help you distribute your version to others. |
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50 | |
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51 | There are several subdirectories: |
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52 | |
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53 | `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and its |
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54 | primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions). |
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55 | `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else). |
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56 | `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by |
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57 | or with Emacs, like movemail and etags. |
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58 | `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files |
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59 | Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote |
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60 | database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man' |
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61 | subdirectories are architecture-independent too. |
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62 | |
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63 | `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs. |
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64 | `man' holds the source code for the Emacs manual. |
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66 | Note that the Emacs Lisp manual sources are distributed separately. |
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67 | (They are twice as large as the Emacs manual in the man subdirectory.) |
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68 | |
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69 | `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG. |
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70 | `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS. |
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71 | `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain |
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72 | to running Emacs on Windows NT. |
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