1 [README for SEMI kernel package (English Version)]
2 by MORIOKA Tomohiko <morioka@jaist.ac.jp>
7 SEMI is a library to provide MIME feature for GNU Emacs. MIME is a
8 proposed internet standard for including content and headers other
9 than (ASCII) plain text in messages.
11 RFC 2045 : Internet Message Bodies
12 RFC 2046 : Media Types
13 RFC 2047 : Message Header Extensions
14 RFC 2048 : MIME Registration Procedures
15 RFC 2049 : MIME Conformance
17 SEMI has the following features:
19 - MIME message viewer (mime-view-mode) (RFC 2045 .. 2049)
20 - MIME message composer (mime-edit-mode) (RFC 2045 .. 2049)
22 MIME message viewer and composer also support following features:
24 - filename handling by Content-Disposition field (RFC 1806)
25 - PGP/MIME security Multiparts (RFC 2015)
26 - application/pgp (draft-kazu-pgp-mime-00.txt; obsolete)
27 - text/richtext (RFC 1521; obsolete; preview only)
28 - text/enriched (RFC 1896)
29 - External method configuration by mailcap (RFC 1524)
31 Notice that this package does not contain MIME extender for any
32 MUAs. They are released as separated packages.
38 SEMI supports XEmacs 20.2 or later with mule, and Emacs 20.
40 SEMI does not support anything older than Emacs 19.28 or XEmacs
41 19.14. SEMI also does not support Emacs 19.29 to 19.34, XEmacs
42 19.15 or XEmacs 20.2 without mule, but SEMI may work with them.
44 If you use Emacs 20, don't set `enable-multibyte-characters' to
45 nil. (Maybe non mule setting requires to modify emu. In addition,
46 it is better to use terminal-coding-system feature)
48 SEMI requires APEL (8.7 or later) and FLIM (1.2.0 or later) package.
49 Please install them before installing it. APEL package is available
52 ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/apel/
54 and FLIM package is available at:
56 ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/flim/
58 PGP/MIME and application/pgp require mailcrypt or tiny-pgp package.
60 The package enriched.el is required to compose text/enriched, so if
61 you use Emacs anything 19.28 or older (including official version of
62 MULE 2.3), WYSIWYG composing for text/enriched is not available.
70 You can specify the emacs command name, for example
72 % make install EMACS=xemacs
74 If `EMACS=...' is omitted, EMACS=emacs is used.
76 You can specify the prefix of the directory tree for Emacs Lisp
77 programs and shell scripts, for example:
79 % make install PREFIX=~/
81 If `PREFIX=...' is omitted, the prefix of the directory tree of the
82 specified emacs command is used (perhaps /usr/local).
84 For example, if PREFIX=/usr/local and EMACS 19.34 is specified, it
85 will create the following directory tree:
87 /usr/local/share/emacs/19.34/site-lisp/ --- emu
88 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/apel/ --- APEL
89 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/ --- FLIM
90 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/ --- SEMI
92 You can specify site-lisp directory, for example
94 % make install LISPDIR=~/share/emacs/lisp
96 If `LISPDIR=...' is omitted, site-lisp directory of the specified
97 emacs command is used (perhaps /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp or
98 /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp).
100 You can specify other optional settings by editing the file
101 ${archive}/SEMI-CFG. Please read ${archive}/README.en and comments
102 in ${archive}/SEMI-CFG.
110 If you are using Emacs or Mule, please add directory of emu, apel,
111 flim and semi to load-path. If you install by default setting, you
112 can write subdirs.el for example:
114 --------------------------------------------------------------------
115 (normal-top-level-add-to-load-path
116 '("apel" "flim" "semi"))
117 --------------------------------------------------------------------
119 If you are using XEmacs, there are no need of setting about
124 Please insert the following into your ~/.emacs:
132 To get started, please read ${archive}/README.en.
134 RFC's 822, 1524, 1806, 1847, 1896, 2015, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048 and
135 2049 are available via anonymous ftp:
137 ftp://ftp.merit.edu/internet/documents/rfc/
143 If you write bug-reports and/or suggestions for improvement, please
144 send them to the tm Mailing List:
146 bug-tm-en@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (English)
147 bug-tm-ja@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (Japanese)
149 Via the tm ML, you can report SEMI bugs, obtain the latest release
150 of SEMI, and discuss future enhancements to SEMI. To join the tm
151 ML, send an empty e-mail to
153 tm-en-help@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (English)
154 tm-ja-help@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (Japanese)