1 This directory tree holds version 22.0.91 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
4 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
5 Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the
6 entire Emacs file tree.
8 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
9 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
11 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
12 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
14 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
15 them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
16 they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
17 in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released
18 versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
19 Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions
20 from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bugs@gnu.org.
22 See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
23 to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
24 can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
25 Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
26 relating to GNU packages.
28 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
29 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
32 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
33 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
34 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the
35 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
38 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
39 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
40 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
41 reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
42 configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
43 `configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
44 version of autoconf and GNU m4.
46 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
49 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar
50 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files
51 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs,
52 this script will help you distribute your version to others.
54 There are several subdirectories:
56 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and
57 its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
59 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
60 `leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
61 auxiliary data files required to type international characters
62 which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
63 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
64 with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
65 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
66 Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead
67 quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info',
68 `man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are
69 architecture-independent too.
70 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
71 `man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
72 manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
73 an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
74 package; you need version 4.2 or later of Texinfo.
75 `lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
76 `lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
79 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
80 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.
81 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
82 to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP.
83 `mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building
84 and running Emacs on the Mac.
86 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
87 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
88 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
89 list the required tools.