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1 **** EDIFF -- a comprehensive interface to diff for Emacs 19 and XEmacs 19
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3 **** This version of Ediff requires *at least* Emacs 19.30 or XEmacs 19.14
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5 This directory:
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7 README -- This file
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8 Makefile -- Automated installation file
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9 ediff.texi -- Manual in Texinfo format
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10 ediff.info* -- The Info files
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11 ediff.dvi -- Manual in DVI format
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13 ediff.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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14 ediff-init.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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15 ediff-wind.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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16 ediff-util.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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17 ediff-diff.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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18 ediff-merg.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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19 ediff-mult.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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20 ediff-vers.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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21 ediff-ptch.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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22 ediff-hook.el -- Ediff Emacs Lisp code
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23
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25 To install Ediff do:
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26
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27 uncompress ediff.tar.Z
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28 tar xf ediff.tar
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29
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30
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31 Then do the following:
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32
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33 1. To compile Lisp:
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35 make (or 'make all')
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36
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37 2. You can also type
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38
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39 make install
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40
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41 to do what "make all" does plus it will copy the files ediff*.elc
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42 into a suitable Lisp directory.
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43
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44 To make this happen, you will most likely have to change the PREFIX
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45 variable in Makefile and, possibly, one or more of these variables:
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47 DATADIR, LISPDIR, INFODIR, ETCDIR, and VERSION
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48
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49 if they don't point to the right directories in your installation.
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50 You also need to have a write permission for all directories
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51 mentioned in LISPDIR, INFODIR, and ETCDIR.
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52
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53 3. XEmacs users must invoke `make' with the parameter EMACS=xemacs
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54 or whatever name is used to invoke XEmacs (some sites still use xemacs
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55 for Emacs 18). An even better thing would be to edit Makefile directly
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56 as indicated in the comments there.
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58 For manual installation, copy ediff*.elc into a directory on your load-path.
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60 For more details, read documentation at the beginning of the file ediff.el
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62 To install on-line documentation, you need to install the Info files
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63 by copying
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65 ediff.info*
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66
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67 into your Info directory (which is emacs-root-dir/info,
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68 if emacs-root-dir is the root directory of the installation).
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69
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70 Then edit the file
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72 emacs-root-dir/info/dir
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74 to include the root menu item for Ediff (check how other menu
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75 items look like in this file).
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77 In Emacs, this item should look like this:
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78
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79 * Ediff: (ediff.info). A Visual Interface to Unix Diff and Patch Utilities
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81 In XEmacs, it looks like:
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83 * Ediff:: A Visual Interface to Unix Diff and Patch Utilities
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86 Normally, all Ediff menus and autoloads are already defined in Emacs, so u
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87 don't need to define anything in your .emacs to run Ediff.
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88 However, if it was announced that this distribution of Ediff contains
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89 new features, you may have to put
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90
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91 (require 'ediff-hook)
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92
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93 in your .emacs to take advantage of these new features. This doesn't load
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94 Ediff, but readies it for any taks u assign to it. When this version of
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95 Ediff gets installed in the standard Emacs distribution, you may remove
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96 the above require-statement (but leaving it in does no harm).
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