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- The subdirectories of this directory contain source code for the XEmacs
- 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 XEmacs starts up, it adds all subdirectories of the site-lisp
- directory. The site-lisp directory normally exists only in
- installation trees. For more information about the site-lisp
- directory see the NEWS file.
-
- After XEmacs adds all subdirectories of the site-lisp directory, 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 XEmacs at your
- site. The files which may appear at top level are:
-
- paths.el You may need to change the default pathnames here,
- but probably not. This is loaded before XEmacs is
- dumped.
-
- site-init.el To pre-load additional libraries into XEmacs and dump
- them in the executable, load them from this file.
- Read the instructions in this file for a description
- of how to do this.
-
- 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/Makefile.in.in and
- rerunning configure.
-
- site-start.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, before the
- user's .emacs file.
-
- default.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, after the
- user's .emacs file, unless .emacs sets the variable
- inhibit-default-init to t.
-
- version.el This contains the version information for XEmacs.
-
-
- These are the main subdirectories:
-
- prim Fundamental XEmacs functionality. Some of this is
- pre-dumped with XEmacs, some is autoloaded.
-
- utils Various utility functions that some other XEmacs
- packages build on. These are not user commands.
-
- modes Text-editing and programming-language-sensitive modes.
-
- emulators XEmacs can emulate a few different editors. These are
- a bit more than what `modes' generally are.
-
- term Terminal-specific customization files. When XEmacs
- 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.
-
- x11 X Window System-specific code.
-
- games Various fun sorts of things.
-
- 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:
-
- auctex A package for editing TeX documents.
-
- bytecomp The XEmacs-lisp compiler.
-
- calendar A calendar and appointment manager.
-
- cl Common Lisp compatibility code.
-
- comint General code for interacting with inferior processes,
- like shell buffers and lisp interpreters.
-
- custom User environment customization code.
-
- edebug A source-level debugger for Elisp.
-
- ediff A comprehensive visual interface to diff and patch.
-
- efs The directory editor, remote FTP frontend.
-
- egg MULE Input Method.
-
- electric The "electric" commands; these implement temporary
- windows for help, list-buffers, etc.
-
- eos An interface to Sun's SparcWorks product.
-
- eterm A merge of the comint shell mode with an
- ANSI-compatible terminal-emulator.
-
- gnats Interface to XEmacs bug reporting system based on
- Cygnus GNATS.
-
- gnus A network news and mail reader.
-
- hm--html-menus Menu interface to html-mode.
-
- ilisp A comint-based package for interacting with inferior
- lisp processes.
-
- iso ISO Latin language support.
-
- its MULE Input Method. [Requires installing LEIM at
- XEmacs build]
-
- language MULE non-English language support. [Requires
- installing LEIM at XEmacs build]
-
- locale IE18N stuff.
-
- mailcrypt Package for dealing with PGP encrypted messages.
-
- mel MIME encoding library (part of the Tools for MIME).
-
- mh-e An interface to the MH-E mail handling system.
-
- mu Message Utilities library (part of the Tools for
- MIME).
-
- mule Multi-lingual extensions for XEmacs. [Requires
- installing LEIM at XEmacs build]
-
- pcl-cvs An interface to the Concurrent Version System.
-
- psgml General purpose SGML editing support with extra
- support for editing HTML.
-
- quail MULE Input Method. [Requires installing LEIM at
- XEmacs build]
-
- rmail A BABYL-format mail reader.
-
- sunpro Additional code for interfacing with SunPro products.
-
- tl Tiny Library (Part of the Tools for MIME).
-
- tm Tools for MIME. MIME support for emacs lisp based
- news and mail readers.
-
- tooltalk An inteface to the ToolTalk communication protocol.
-
- viper A full-featured VI emulator.
-
- vm View Mail, an UNIX-format alternative to RMAIL.
-
- w3 A World Wide Web interface.
-