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Update some of the more obsolete information.

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.\" Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
.\"
'\" t
.TH EMACS 1 "2001 November 23"
.UC 4
.TH EMACS 1 "2007 April 13" "GNU Emacs 22.1"
.SH NAME
emacs \- GNU project Emacs
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -40,11 +39,11 @@ written by the author of the original (PDP-10)
Richard Stallman.
.br
The primary documentation of GNU Emacs is in the GNU Emacs Manual,
which you can read on line using Info, a subsystem of Emacs. Please
look there for complete and up-to-date documentation. This man page
is updated only when someone volunteers to do so; the Emacs
maintainers' priority goal is to minimize the amount of time this man
page takes away from other more useful projects.
which you can read using Info, either from Emacs or as a standalone
program. Please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation.
This man page is updated only when someone volunteers to do so; the
Emacs maintainers' priority goal is to minimize the amount of time
this man page takes away from other more useful projects.
.br
The user functionality of GNU Emacs encompasses
everything other
@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ but the facility assumes that you know how to manipulate
.I Emacs
windows and buffers.
CTRL-h or F1 enters the Help facility. Help Tutorial (CTRL-h t)
requests an interactive tutorial which can teach beginners the fundamentals
starts an interactive tutorial which can teach beginners the fundamentals
of
.I Emacs
in a few minutes.
@ -77,7 +76,7 @@ outline editing (Outline), compiling (Compile), running subshells
within
.I Emacs
windows (Shell), running a Lisp read-eval-print loop
(Lisp-Interaction-Mode), and automated psychotherapy (Doctor).
(Lisp-Interaction-Mode), automated psychotherapy (Doctor), and much more.
.PP
There is an extensive reference manual, but
users of other Emacses
@ -201,11 +200,6 @@ Display the
.I Emacs
window in reverse video.
.TP
.B \-i
Use the "kitchen sink" bitmap icon when iconifying the
.I Emacs
window.
.TP
.BI \-font " font, " \-fn " font"
Set the
.I Emacs
@ -262,8 +256,8 @@ with selecting or deselecting the tool bar and menu bar.
.BI \-fg " color"
On color displays, sets the color of the text.
See the file
.I /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt
Use the command
.I M-x list-colors-display
for a list of valid
color names.
.TP
@ -299,7 +293,6 @@ switch when invoking
from an
.IR xterm (1)
window, display is done in that window.
This must be the first option specified in the command line.
.PP
You can set
.I X
@ -431,43 +424,31 @@ make and distribute copies of the Emacs manual. The TeX source to the
manual is also included in the Emacs source distribution.
.PP
.SH FILES
/usr/local/share/info - files for the Info documentation browser
(a subsystem of Emacs) to refer to. Currently not much of Unix
is documented here, but the complete text of the Emacs reference
manual is included in a convenient tree structured form.
/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/src - C source files and object files
/usr/local/share/info - files for the Info documentation browser.
The complete text of the Emacs reference manual is included in a
convenient tree structured form. Also includes the Emacs Lisp
Reference Manual, useful to anyone wishing to write programs in the
Emacs Lisp extension language.
/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/lisp - Lisp source files and compiled files
that define most editing commands. Some are preloaded;
others are autoloaded from this directory when used.
/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc - various programs that are used with
GNU Emacs, and some files of information.
/usr/local/libexec/emacs/$VERSION/$ARCH - various programs that are
used with GNU Emacs.
/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc - various files of information.
/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc/DOC.* - contains the documentation
strings for the Lisp primitives and preloaded Lisp functions
of GNU Emacs. They are stored here to reduce the size of
Emacs proper.
/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc/OTHER.EMACSES discusses GNU Emacs
vs. other versions of Emacs.
.br
/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc/SERVICE lists people offering
various services to assist users of GNU Emacs, including education,
troubleshooting, porting and customization.
.br
These files also have information useful to anyone wishing to write
programs in the Emacs Lisp extension language, which has not yet been fully
documented.
/usr/local/com/emacs/lock - holds lock files that are made for all
files being modified in Emacs, to prevent simultaneous modification
of one file by two users.
.\" START DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X
/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt - list of valid X color names.
.\" STOP DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X
.PP
.SH BUGS
There is a mailing list, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, for reporting Emacs
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file /usr/local/emacs/etc/MAILINGLISTS. Bugs tend actually to be
fixed if they can be isolated, so it is in your interest to report
them in such a way that they can be easily reproduced.
.PP
Bugs that I know about are: shell will not work with programs
running in Raw mode on some Unix versions.
.SH UNRESTRICTIONS
.PP
.I Emacs
@ -519,11 +497,10 @@ Richard Stallman encourages you to improve and extend
.I Emacs,
and urges that
you contribute your extensions to the GNU library. Eventually GNU
(Gnu's Not Unix) will be a complete replacement for Berkeley
Unix.
(Gnu's Not Unix) will be a complete replacement for Unix.
Everyone will be free to use, copy, study and change the GNU system.
.SH SEE ALSO
X(1), xlsfonts(1), xterm(1), xrdb(1)
emacsclient(1), etags(1), X(1), xlsfonts(1), xterm(1), xrdb(1)
.SH AUTHORS
.PP
.I Emacs
@ -532,7 +509,7 @@ Joachim Martillo and Robert Krawitz added the X features.
.SH COPYING
Copyright
.if t \(co
.if n (c)
.if n (C)
1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP