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- This directory tree holds version 19.13 of XEmacs, the extensible,
- customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
-
- See the file `etc/NEWS' for information on new features and other
- user-visible changes since the last version of XEmacs.
-
- The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up XEmacs on
- Unix, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory.
-
- The file PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
- occur in building, installing and running XEmacs.
-
- Reports of bugs in XEmacs should be posted to the newsgroup
- comp.emacs.xemacs or sent to the mailing list xemacs@cs.uiuc.edu. See
- the "Bugs" section of the XEmacs 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
- XEmacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
- relating to XEmacs and other GNU products.
-
- The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate XEmacs to the
- oddities of your processor and operating system. It will create a
- file named `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which helps
- automate the process of building and installing emacs. See INSTALL
- for more detailed information.
-
- The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
- construct the `configure' script. Since XEmacs has configuration
- requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy
- marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it
- may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when
- possible.
-
- The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
- `Makefile'.
-
- There are several subdirectories:
-
- `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the XEmacs Lisp interpreter and its
- primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions).
- `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for XEmacs (most everything else).
- `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by
- or with XEmacs, like movemail and etags.
- `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
- XEmacs 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.
- `lwlib' holds the C code for the toolkit objects used by XEmacs.
-
- `info' holds the Info documentation tree for XEmacs.
- `man' holds the source code for the XEmacs manual.
-
- `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling XEmacs under MSDOG.
- See the file etc/MSDOS for more information.
- `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running XEmacs under VMS.
- (not supported)
-