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  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

See the end of the file for license conditions.

This directory tree holds version 23.1.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,

customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU

Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the

entire Emacs file tree.

See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other

user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.

The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that

occur in building, installing and running Emacs.

You may encounter bugs in this release.  If you do, please report

them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since

they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or

in code we don't use often.  Please send bug reports for released

versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.

Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions

from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.

See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs 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

Emacs.)  See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists

relating to GNU packages.

The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital

letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU

Emacs.

The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the

oddities of your processor and operating system.  It creates the file

`Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates 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 Emacs has some configuration

requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical

reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked

configuration code and autoconf macros.  If you want to rebuild

`configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent

version of autoconf and GNU m4.

The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create

`Makefile'.

The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar

file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files

appropriate for distribution.  If you make extensive changes to Emacs,

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).

`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.

`doc/emacs' 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 4.6 or later of Texinfo.

`doc/lispref'   holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual.

`doc/lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming

                in Emacs Lisp manual.

`msdos'     holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.

`nextstep'  holds instructions and some other files for compiling the

            Nextstep port of Emacs, for GNUstep and Mac OS X Cocoa.

`nt'        holds various command files and documentation files that pertain

            to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP.

`test'      holds tests for various aspects of Emacs's functionality.

   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.

This file is part of GNU Emacs.

GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.