-This directory tree holds version 22.0.51 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+
+This directory tree holds version 23.0.94 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
-You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
-them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
-they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
-in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on
-how to report bugs.
+The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
+Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the
+entire Emacs file tree.
See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
-The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on
-various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this
-directory.
-
The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
-Reports of bugs in Emacs should be sent to the mailing list
-bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs
-manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS'
-in this directory explains how you can find and read that section
-using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS'
-for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages.
+You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
+them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
+they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
+in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released
+versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
+Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions
+from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.
+
+See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how
+to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you
+can find and read that section using the Info files that come with
+Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
+relating to GNU packages.
The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
`man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are
architecture-independent too.
`info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
-`man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
+`doc/emacs' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
- package; you need version 4.2 or later of Texinfo.
-`lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
-`lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
- in Emacs Lisp manual.
-
+ package; you need version 4.6 or later of Texinfo.
+`doc/lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.
+`doc/lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming
+ in Emacs Lisp manual.
`msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
-`vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.
+`nextstep' holds instructions and some other files for compiling the
+ Nextstep port of Emacs, for GNUstep and Mac OS X Cocoa.
`nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP.
-`mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building
- and running Emacs on the Mac.
+`test' holds tests for various aspects of Emacs's functionality.
Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
list the required tools.
-VMS info:
-
-Emacs 19.x and above do not compile out of the box on OpenVMS.
-Richard Levitte <levitte@lp.se> is distributing and maintaining a
-version of Emacs (currently based on version 19.28, but soon moving to
-19.34 and then 20.1) that compiles and works on OpenVMS 5.5 and above
-on both VAX and Alpha architectures. For more information see
+\f
+This file is part of GNU Emacs.
- http://www.lp.se/gnu-vms/software/released1/emacs.html
+GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
-There is also some effort going on with Emacs 21. Source code is
-available at ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/vms/emacs/. Look for most
-recent stuff with ls -lta.
+GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
-It is a working "development" version (editing and much more works).
-More developers are needed; contact roart@nvg.ntnu.no.
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.