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This directory tree holds version 22.0.91 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 for released
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versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions
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from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bugs@gnu.org.
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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.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
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relating to GNU packages.
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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.in' 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.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
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configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
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`configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
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version of autoconf and GNU m4.
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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 library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
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auxiliary data files required to type international characters
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which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
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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
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Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead
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quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info',
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`man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are
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architecture-independent too.
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`info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
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`man' 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 version 4.2 or later of Texinfo.
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`lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
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`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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`vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.
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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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`mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building
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and running Emacs on the Mac.
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Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
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that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
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platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
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list the required tools.
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