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This directory tree holds version 23.1.90 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 [email protected]. Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to [email protected].

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.) Seeetc/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 theconfigure' 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 byconfigure' 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 thelisp', 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 themakeinfo' 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.

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