toolbox/public/GNU/emacs README
This directory contains inst images for emacs19:
See also /toolbox/FAQs/netfaqs/GNUemacs-faq.
emacs19 - GNU emacs-19.28 (for IRIX 5.2+)
The latest version of the GNU (Gnus Not Unix) editor. Includes
the GNUS newsreader, gnuserv, and other stuff standard. For
this release, the "extra" stuff (other than gnuserv) is in a
seperate inst package (emacs19-contrib). All binaries end in
"19" to avoid conflict with emacs-18. Installs into /usr/gnu,
and inst will follow the symlink if moved elsewhere.
emacs19-contrib - extra/contributed software for emacs19
Contains extensions to the standard GNU Emacs distribution:
vm 5.72 (beta), and other miscellaneous packages. Should
work OK with the earlier 19.22 inst package, but it has not
been tested.
When one points inst at public/GNU/emacs, the default subsystems
tagged for installation (on a one-partition system-drive) are:
Current View:
Location: distribution
Status: N=new,U=upgrade,P=patch upgrd,S=same,D=downgrade,' '=not installed
Selection: i=install, r=remove, k=keep
Level: subsystem
Name: name
Subsystem Type(s) [bdrp]: b=reBoot needed, d=Default, r=Required, p=Patch
N emacs19-contrib.src.contrib 0 Emacs v19 contrib Source
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.contrib [d] 161+ Emacs V19 contrib elisp etc
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.contribsrc [d] 18+ Emacs V19 contrib elisp source
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.crypt [d] 150+ email crypt (PGP) tools interfaces
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.progman [d] 2150+ Emacs V19 elisp programmers manual
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.vm [d] 699+ VM email handler
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.vmsrc [d] 573+ VM email handler elisp source files
i N emacs19.links.sw [d] 0 Stuff not under /usr/gnu or
manpages
i N emacs19.man.man [d] 19+ Emacs V19 man pages
N emacs19.man.mansrc 0 Emacs V19 man page source
N emacs19.src.gnuemacs 0 Emacs v19 Source
i N emacs19.sw.elispsrc [d] 7697+ Emacs V19 Elisp source
i N emacs19.sw.emacs [d] 11266+ Emacs v19 runtime
i N emacs19.sw.fsfdocs [d] 1351+ Miscellaneous Emacs V19 docs
N emacs19.sw.infosrc 0 Emacs V19 texinfo source files
Disk space summary (Kbytes): /
Selections net change 24064+
However, we went the final mile in sanity-testing this procedure,
and, with everything tagged for install the disk-space numbers
fall out like this:
i N emacs19-contrib.src.contrib 2045+ Emacs v19 contrib Source
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.contrib [d] 161+ Emacs V19 contrib elisp etc
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.contribsrc [d] 18+ Emacs V19 contrib elisp source
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.crypt [d] 150+ email crypt (PGP) tools interfaces
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.progman [d] 2150+ Emacs V19 elisp programmers manual
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.vm [d] 699+ VM email handler
i N emacs19-contrib.sw.vmsrc [d] 573+ VM email handler elisp source files
i N emacs19.links.sw [d] 0 Stuff not under /usr/gnu or
manpages
i N emacs19.man.man [d] 19+ Emacs V19 man pages
i N emacs19.man.mansrc 20+ Emacs V19 man page source
i N emacs19.src.gnuemacs 7374+ Emacs v19 Source
i N emacs19.sw.elispsrc [d] 7697+ Emacs V19 Elisp source
i N emacs19.sw.emacs [d] 11266+ Emacs v19 runtime
i N emacs19.sw.fsfdocs [d] 1351+ Miscellaneous Emacs V19 docs
i N emacs19.sw.infosrc 2078+ Emacs V19 texinfo source files
Disk space summary (Kbytes): /
Selections net change 35560+
The bulk of everything installs into /usr/gnu, and takes 26+MB.
To avoid conflicts with the existing emacs binaries, it is
called emacs19, and the man pages are also suffixed with 19
(`man emacs19 ctags19 etags19`).
Any bugs in emacs, send to the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Emacs-19.28 is now quite robust, but there are still 3rd-party
elisp packages which haven't been ported to work with emacs-19,
so you should be careful when replacing emacs-18.
A couple of pointers: many of the configuration variables and
hooks for GNUS and VM have changed. It appears (though not
confirmed) that elisp byte-compiled by emacs-19 is not loadable
by emacs-18 based programs. There is a pre-defined "site-lisp"
directory in /usr/gnu/lib/emacs/site-lisp to load your personal
(or group) elisp packages.
For those short on space in /usr, the following list may be
helpful to make symlinks point from:
subsystem directories installed disk space needed
_________ _____________________ _____________________
emacs19.sw /usr/gnu 20.6MB
emacs19-contrib /usr/gnu/info
/usr/gnu/lib/emacs/site-lisp 5.6+
emacs19.man /usr/share/catman negligible
emacs19.src /usr/src/gnu 9.25MB gzip'd
33.5MB un-gzip'd
emacs19.links /usr/local/bin links to /usr/gnu/bin
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