1 Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 See the end of the file for license conditions.
5 This directory tree holds version 24.2 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
6 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
8 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
9 Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the
10 entire Emacs file tree.
12 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
13 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
15 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
16 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
18 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
19 them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
20 they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
21 in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports to the mailing
22 list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
24 See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
25 to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
26 can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
27 Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
28 relating to GNU packages.
30 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
31 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
34 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
35 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
36 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the
37 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
40 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
41 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
42 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
43 reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
44 configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
45 `configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
46 version of autoconf and GNU m4.
48 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
51 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar
52 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files
53 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs,
54 this script will help you distribute your version to others.
56 There are several subdirectories:
58 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and
59 its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
61 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
62 `leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
63 auxiliary data files required to type international characters
64 which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
65 `lib' holds source code for libraries used by Emacs and its utilities
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 Emacs
69 uses, like the tutorial text and tool bar images.
70 The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info', and `doc'
71 subdirectories are architecture-independent too.
72 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
73 `doc/emacs' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
74 manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
75 an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
76 package; you need a suitably recent version of Texinfo.
77 `doc/lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
78 `doc/lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
80 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
81 `nextstep' holds instructions and some other files for compiling the
82 Nextstep port of Emacs, for GNUstep and Mac OS X Cocoa.
83 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
84 to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP.
85 `test' holds tests for various aspects of Emacs's functionality.
87 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires tools that aren't part
88 of the standard distribution of the OS. The platform-specific README
89 files and installation instructions should list the required tools.
92 NOTE ON COPYRIGHT YEARS
94 In copyright notices where the copyright holder is the Free Software
95 Foundation, then where a range of years appears, this is an inclusive
96 range that applies to every year in the range. For example: 2005-2008
97 represents the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
100 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
102 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
103 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
104 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
105 (at your option) any later version.
107 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
108 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
109 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
110 GNU General Public License for more details.
112 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
113 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.