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- The subdirectories of this directory contain source code for the Emacs
- facilities written in Emacs Lisp. *.el files are Elisp source, and *.elc
- files are byte-compiled versions of the corresponding *.el files.
- Byte-compiled files are architecture-independent.
-
- When emacs starts up, it adds all subdirectories of this directory to the
- load-path (the list of directories to be searched when loading files.) To
- speed up this process, this directory has been rearranged to have very few
- files at the top-level, so that emacs doesn't have to stat() several hundred
- files to find the dozen or so which are actually subdirectories.
-
- Directories whose names begin with "-" or "." are not added to the default
- load-path.
-
- The only files which remain at top-level are those which you might reasonably
- want to alter when installing or customizing emacs at your site. The files
- at top level are:
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- paths.el You may need to change the default pathnames here.
-
- site-init.el To pre-load additional libraries into emacs, load them
- from this file.
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- site-load.el This is like site-init.el, but if you want the
- docstrings of your preloaded libraries to be kept in
- the DOC file instead of in the executable, you should
- load them from this file instead. To do this, you must
- also cause them to be scanned when the DOC file is
- generated by editing ../src/ymakefile.
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- version.el This file is automatically altered when emacs is built.
-
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- These are the main subdirectories:
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- prim Fundamental emacs functionality. Some of this is
- pre-dumped with emacs, some is autoloaded.
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- utils Various utility functions that some other emacs
- packages build on. These are not user commands.
-
- modes Text-editing and programming-language-sensitive modes.
-
- emulators Emacs can emulate a few different editors. These are
- a bit more than what `modes' generally are.
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- term Terminal-specific customization files. When Emacs
- starts, it checks the $TERM environment variable to
- see what type of terminal the user is running on, and
- loads a file named $TERM.el from this directory, if
- that file exists.
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- sunview SunView-specific code.
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- vms VMS-specific code.
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- x11 X Window System-specific code.
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- packages Random other utilities that are not primarily about
- editing text. For example, code for automatically
- uncompressing .Z files would be here. This is an
- `everything else' sort of directory.
-
- Some packages are fairly large; those have been given their own directories:
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- bytecomp The emacs-lisp compiler.
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- calendar A calendar and appointment manager.
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- comint General code for interacting with inferior processes,
- like shell buffers and lisp interpreters.
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- dired The directory editor.
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- electric The "electric" commands; these implement temporary
- windows for help, list-buffers, etc.
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- gnus An NNTP-based newsreader; version 3.13.
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- ilisp A comint-based package for interacting with inferior
- lisp processes.
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- rmail A BABYL-format mail reader.
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- vm View Mail, an UNIX-format alternative to RMAIL.
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