X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/a5f86a374ed7fc291510afc34981fb9657311d84..6f1b55918d0d23d7df9fe0363761ba7b9ea3be84:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 337b78c2df..927f4f98b4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This directory tree holds version 21.0.102 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, +This directory tree holds version 22.0.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report @@ -52,34 +52,54 @@ this script will help you distribute your version to others. There are several subdirectories: -`src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and its - primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions). -`lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else). -`lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by - or with Emacs, like movemail and etags. -`etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files - Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote - database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man' - 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 - manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce - an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo - package; you need version 4.0 or later of Texinfo. - - Note that the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual sources are distributed -separately. (They are twice as large as the Emacs Manual in the man -subdirectory.) - -`msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG. -`vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS. -`nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain - to running Emacs on Windows NT. -`mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building - and running Emacs on the Mac. +`src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and + 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. +`lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or + with Emacs, like movemail and etags. +`etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files + Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead + quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info', + `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 + 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. + +`msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG. +`vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS. +`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. 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 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://www.lp.se/gnu-vms/software/released1/emacs.html + +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. + +It is a working "development" version (editing and much more works). +More developers are needed; contact roart@nvg.ntnu.no.