1 This directory tree holds version 21.2 of XEmacs, the extensible,
2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This version
3 of XEmacs also runs on various Microsoft Windows platforms including
4 MS Windows '95 and MS Windows NT and Cygwin.
6 See the file `etc/NEWS' for information on new features and other
7 user-visible changes since the last version of XEmacs.
9 The file `INSTALL' in this directory says how to bring up XEmacs on
10 Unix and Cygwin, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this
13 The file `PROBLEMS' contains information on many common problems that
14 occur in building, installing and running XEmacs.
16 See the file `nt/README' for instructions on building XEmacs for
19 Reports of bugs in XEmacs should be posted to the newsgroup
20 comp.emacs.xemacs or sent to the mailing list xemacs@xemacs.org. See
21 the "Bugs" section of the XEmacs manual for more information on how to
22 report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you can
23 find and read that section using the Info files that come with
24 XEmacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists
25 relating to XEmacs and other GNU products.
27 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate XEmacs to the
28 oddities of your processor and operating system. It will create a
29 file named `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which helps
30 automate the process of building and installing emacs. See INSTALL
31 for more detailed information.
33 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
34 construct the `configure' script. Since XEmacs has configuration
35 requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy
36 marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it
37 may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when
40 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
43 There are several subdirectories:
45 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the XEmacs Lisp interpreter and its
46 primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions).
47 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for XEmacs (most everything else).
48 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by
49 or with XEmacs, like movemail and etags.
50 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
51 XEmacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote
52 database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man'
53 subdirectories are architecture-independent too.
54 `lwlib' holds the C code for the toolkit objects used by XEmacs.
56 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for XEmacs.
57 `man' holds the source code for the XEmacs info documentation tree.
59 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling XEmacs under MSDOG.
60 See the file etc/MSDOS for more information.
62 `nt' holds configuration files for compiling XEmacs under Microsoft Windows
63 NT. The support for NT is very tentative right now.