X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/3bee03c181d99e934c7192c6d36cc5c48ad12972..7c626e9d7b5dd4a108571d9b29624d922bb355d7:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 5a21204941..59e509355b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,28 +1,34 @@ -This directory tree holds version 21.3.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, +Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 + Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end of the file for license conditions. + + +This directory tree holds version 22.1.50 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-bugs@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 @@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ There are several subdirectories: `man' 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. + package; you need version 4.6 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. @@ -87,21 +93,20 @@ 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 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 - - http://vms.gnu.org/software/released1/emacs.html#get_emacs_1928_kit + +This file is part of GNU Emacs. -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 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, or (at your option) +any later version. -It is a working "development" version (editing and much more works). -More developers are needed; contact roart@nvg.ntnu.no. +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. - blah +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the +Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, +Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.