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| 1 This directory tree holds version 19.14 of XEmacs, the extensible, | |
| 2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. | |
| 3 | |
| 4 See the file `etc/NEWS' for information on new features and other | |
| 5 user-visible changes since the last version of XEmacs. | |
| 6 | |
| 7 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up XEmacs on | |
| 8 Unix, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory. | |
| 9 | |
| 10 The file PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that | |
| 11 occur in building, installing and running XEmacs. | |
| 12 | |
| 13 Reports of bugs in XEmacs should be posted to the newsgroup | |
| 14 comp.emacs.xemacs or sent to the mailing list xemacs@xemacs.org. See | |
| 15 the "Bugs" section of the XEmacs manual for more information on how to | |
| 16 report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you can | |
| 17 find and read that section using the Info files that come with | |
| 18 XEmacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists | |
| 19 relating to XEmacs and other GNU products. | |
| 20 | |
| 21 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate XEmacs to the | |
| 22 oddities of your processor and operating system. It will create a | |
| 23 file named `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which helps | |
| 24 automate the process of building and installing emacs. See INSTALL | |
| 25 for more detailed information. | |
| 26 | |
| 27 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to | |
| 28 construct the `configure' script. Since XEmacs has configuration | |
| 29 requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy | |
| 30 marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it | |
| 31 may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when | |
| 32 possible. | |
| 33 | |
| 34 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create | |
| 35 `Makefile'. | |
| 36 | |
| 37 There are several subdirectories: | |
| 38 | |
| 39 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the XEmacs Lisp interpreter and its | |
| 40 primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions). | |
| 41 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for XEmacs (most everything else). | |
| 42 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by | |
| 43 or with XEmacs, like movemail and etags. | |
| 44 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files | |
| 45 XEmacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote | |
| 46 database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man' | |
| 47 subdirectories are architecture-independent too. | |
| 48 `lwlib' holds the C code for the toolkit objects used by XEmacs. | |
| 49 | |
| 50 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for XEmacs. | |
| 51 `man' holds the source code for the XEmacs manual. | |
| 52 | |
| 53 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling XEmacs under MSDOG. | |
| 54 See the file etc/MSDOS for more information. | |
| 55 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running XEmacs under VMS. | |
| 56 (not supported) |