-Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
-This directory tree holds version 24.3.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 25.0.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
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.
+Emacs.) For a list of mailing lists related to Emacs, see
+<http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs>. For the complete
+list of GNU mailing lists, see <http://lists.gnu.org/>.
The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
detailed information.
The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to
-construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
-requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
-reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
-configuration code and autoconf macros.
+construct the `configure' script.
The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by
running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use
its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing
functions).
`lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
-`leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and
- auxiliary data files required to type international characters
- which can't be directly produced by your keyboard.
+`leim' holds the original source files for the generated files
+ in lisp/leim. These form the library of Emacs input methods,
+ required to type international characters that can't be
+ directly produced by your keyboard.
`lib' holds source code for libraries used by Emacs and its utilities
`lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or
with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
`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.
+`msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MS-DOS.
`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