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Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end of the file for license conditions.
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This directory tree holds version 24.4.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
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customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
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The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
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Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the
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entire Emacs file tree.
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See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
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user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
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The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
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occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
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You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
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them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
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they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
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in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports to the mailing
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list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
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See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
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to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
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can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
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Emacs.) For a list of mailing lists related to Emacs, see
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<http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs>. For the complete
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list of GNU mailing lists, see <http://lists.gnu.org/>.
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The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
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letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
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Emacs.
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The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
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oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
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`Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the
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process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
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detailed information.
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The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to
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construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
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requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
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reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
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configuration code and autoconf macros.
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The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by
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running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use
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GNU m4 and Perl. If you want to use it, you will need to install
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recent versions of these build tools. This should be needed only if
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you edit files like `configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild
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procedure.
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The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
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`Makefile'.
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The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar
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file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files
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appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs,
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this script will help you distribute your version to others.
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There are several subdirectories:
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`src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and
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its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
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functions).
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`lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
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`leim' holds the original source files for the generated files
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in lisp/leim. These form the library of Emacs input methods,
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required to type international characters that can't be
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directly produced by your keyboard.
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`lib' holds source code for libraries used by Emacs and its utilities
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`lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
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with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
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`etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files Emacs
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uses, like the tutorial text and tool bar images.
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The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info', and `doc'
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subdirectories are architecture-independent too.
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`info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
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`doc/emacs' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
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manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
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an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
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package; you need a suitably recent version of Texinfo.
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`doc/lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
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`doc/lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
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in Emacs Lisp manual.
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`msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
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`nextstep' holds instructions and some other files for compiling the
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Nextstep port of Emacs, for GNUstep and Mac OS X Cocoa.
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`nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
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to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP.
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`test' holds tests for various aspects of Emacs's functionality.
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Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires tools that aren't part
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of the standard distribution of the OS. The platform-specific README
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files and installation instructions should list the required tools.
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NOTE ON COPYRIGHT YEARS
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In copyright notices where the copyright holder is the Free Software
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Foundation, then where a range of years appears, this is an inclusive
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range that applies to every year in the range. For example: 2005-2008
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represents the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
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This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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