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2 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
6 This directory tree holds version 23.2.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
7 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
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.
13 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
14 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
16 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
17 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
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 to the mailing
23 list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
25 See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
26 to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
27 can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
28 Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
29 relating to GNU packages.
31 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
32 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
35 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
36 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
37 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the
38 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
41 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
42 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
43 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
44 reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
45 configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
46 `configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
47 version of autoconf and GNU m4.
49 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
52 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar
53 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files
54 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs,
55 this script will help you distribute your version to others.
57 There are several subdirectories:
59 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and
60 its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
62 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
63 `leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
64 auxiliary data files required to type international characters
65 which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
66 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
67 with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
68 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
69 Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead
70 quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info',
71 `man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are
72 architecture-independent too.
73 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
74 `doc/emacs' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
75 manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
76 an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
77 package; you need version 4.6 or later of Texinfo.
78 `doc/lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
79 `doc/lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
81 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
82 `nextstep' holds instructions and some other files for compiling the
83 Nextstep port of Emacs, for GNUstep and Mac OS X Cocoa.
84 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
85 to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP.
86 `test' holds tests for various aspects of Emacs's functionality.
88 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
89 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
90 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
91 list the required tools.
94 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
96 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
97 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
98 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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101 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
102 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
103 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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106 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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