Contents of release-21-2 at 1999-07-02-10.

[chise/xemacs-chise.git.1] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 2cef985..82dda47 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -396,16 +396,12 @@ variable gets by default!  Make sure you know what kind of value the
 variable should have.  If you don't pay attention to what you are
 doing, you'll make a mistake.
 
-Things may malfunction if the variable `directory-abbrev-alist' is not set
-up to translate "temporary" automounter mount points into the canonical
-form.  The default value of this variable contains the translation
-
-       ("^/tmp_mnt/" . "/")
-
-meaning translate "/tmp_mnt/net/FOO" into "/net/FOO", which is appropriate
-for the default configuration of the Sun automounter, but which may be
-inappropriate for different vendor's automounters, or if you have customized
-your mount-point names.
+Things may malfunction if the variable `directory-abbrev-alist' is not
+set up to translate "temporary" automounter mount points into the
+canonical form.  XEmacs tries to detect how your automounter is
+configured.  If you have an unusual automounter configuration that
+XEmacs cannot detect, you may need to change the value of
+`directory-abbrev-alist'.
 
 5) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs
 Lisp code you want XEmacs to load before it is dumped out.  Use
@@ -634,6 +630,10 @@ GNU software; here are some variables specific to XEmacs.
        above), is `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME'
        (where VERSION and CONFIGURATION-NAME are as described above).
 
+`docdir' indicates where to put Lisp documentation strings that XEmacs
+        refers to as it runs.  It defaults the value of `archlibdir'
+        (see above).
+
 `moduledir' indicates where XEmacs installs and expects to find
        any dynamic modules.  Its default value, based on
        `archlibdir' (see above) is