[README for SEMI kernel package (English Version)] What's SEMI? ============ SEMI is a library to provide MIME feature for GNU Emacs. MIME is a proposed internet standard for including content and headers other than (ASCII) plain text in messages. RFC 2045 : Internet Message Bodies RFC 2046 : Media Types RFC 2047 : Message Header Extensions RFC 2048 : MIME Registration Procedures RFC 2049 : MIME Conformance SEMI has the following features: - MIME message viewer (mime-view-mode) (RFC 2045 .. 2049) - MIME message composer (mime-edit-mode) (RFC 2045 .. 2049) MIME message viewer and composer also support following features: - filename handling by Content-Disposition field (RFC 1806) - PGP/MIME security Multiparts (RFC 2015) - application/pgp (draft-kazu-pgp-mime-00.txt; obsolete) - text/richtext (RFC 1521; obsolete; preview only) - text/enriched (RFC 1896) - External method configuration by mailcap (RFC 1524) Notice that this package does not contain MIME extender for any MUAs. They are released as separated packages. Required environment ==================== SEMI supports XEmacs 20.2 or later with mule, and Emacs 20. SEMI does not support anything older than Emacs 19.28 or XEmacs 19.14. SEMI also does not support Emacs 19.29 to 19.34, XEmacs 19.15 or XEmacs 20.2 without mule, but SEMI may work with them. If you use Emacs 20, don't set `enable-multibyte-characters' to nil. (Maybe non mule setting requires to modify emu. In addition, it is better to use terminal-coding-system feature) SEMI requires APEL (8.7 or later) and FLIM (1.3.0 or later) package. Please install them before installing it. APEL package is available at: ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/apel/ and FLIM package is available at: ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/flim/ PGP/MIME and application/pgp require mailcrypt or tiny-pgp package. The package enriched.el is required to compose text/enriched, so if you use Emacs anything 19.28 or older (including official version of MULE 2.3), WYSIWYG composing for text/enriched is not available. Installation ============ % make install You can specify the emacs command name, for example % make install EMACS=xemacs If `EMACS=...' is omitted, EMACS=emacs is used. You can specify the prefix of the directory tree for Emacs Lisp programs and shell scripts, for example: % make install PREFIX=~/ If `PREFIX=...' is omitted, the prefix of the directory tree of the specified emacs command is used (perhaps /usr/local). For example, if PREFIX=/usr/local and EMACS 19.34 is specified, it will create the following directory tree: /usr/local/share/emacs/19.34/site-lisp/ --- emu /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/apel/ --- APEL /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/ --- FLIM /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/ --- SEMI You can specify site-lisp directory, for example % make install LISPDIR=~/share/emacs/lisp If `LISPDIR=...' is omitted, site-lisp directory of the specified emacs command is used (perhaps /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp or /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp). You can specify other optional settings by editing the file ${archive}/SEMI-CFG. Please read ${archive}/README.en and comments in ${archive}/SEMI-CFG. Initialization ============== (a) load-path If you are using Emacs or Mule, please add directory of emu, apel, flim and semi to load-path. If you install by default setting, you can write subdirs.el for example: -------------------------------------------------------------------- (normal-top-level-add-to-load-path '("apel" "flim" "semi")) -------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are using XEmacs, there are no need of setting about load-path. (b) mime-setup Please insert the following into your ~/.emacs: (load "mime-setup") Documentation ============= To get started, please read ${archive}/README.en. RFC's 822, 1524, 1806, 1847, 1896, 2015, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048 and 2049 are available via anonymous ftp: ftp://ftp.merit.edu/internet/documents/rfc/ Mailing lists ============= If you write bug-reports and/or suggestions for improvement, please send them to the tm Mailing List: bug-tm-en@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (English) bug-tm-ja@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (Japanese) Via the tm ML, you can report SEMI bugs, obtain the latest release of SEMI, and discuss future enhancements to SEMI. To join the tm ML, send an empty e-mail to tm-en-help@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (English) tm-ja-help@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (Japanese) Notice that you should not send mail to author(s), such as morioka@jaist.ac.jp, directly. Because your problem may occur in other environments (if not, it might be your problem, not bug of SEMI). We should discuss in the tm mailing lists. Anyway direct-mail for authors might be ignored. Please send mail to the tm mailing lists. CVS based development ===================== If you would like to join CVS based development, please send mail to cvs@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp with your account name and UNIX style crypted password. We hope you will join the open development. Authors ======= Original authors MORIOKA Tomohiko (the author of mime-view and various parts of SEMI) UMEDA Masanobu (the author of mime.el of emacs-mime-tools. mime.el is the origin of mime-edit.el of SEMI) Other authors Shuhei KOBAYASHI (a major author of signature.el and a lot of codes) MASUTANI Yasuhiro (anonymous ftp codes of mime-play.el) OKABE Yasuo (a major author of mime-partial.el and signature.el) Steinar Bang Steven L. Baur Kevin Broadey Alastair Burt Eric Ding Thierry Emery Simon Josefsson Jens Lautenbacher Carsten Leonhardt Pekka Marjola Hisashi Miyashita Kazuhiro Ohta Alexandre Oliva François Pinard Artur Pioro Dan Rich (contribute to evolve mime-image.el with XEmacs) Katsumi Yamaoka