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| author | Richard M. Stallman | 2006-11-28 20:16:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman | 2006-11-28 20:16:14 +0000 |
| commit | fdd68ab3b42a023bfa72d6504359d1d048356fe2 (patch) | |
| tree | ed98931da3680d3da2b9bd1a750c3f399abe2d8d /README | |
| parent | d873b0bfb2ff637dbe3450948dea7f2fe2e12a77 (diff) | |
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Clarify bug reporting. Delete VMS section.
Improve somew wording.
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| 1 | This directory tree holds version 22.0.91 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, | 1 | This directory tree holds version 22.0.91 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, |
| 2 | customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. | 2 | customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. |
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report | 4 | The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU |
| 5 | them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since | 5 | Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the |
| 6 | they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or | 6 | entire Emacs file tree. |
| 7 | in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on | ||
| 8 | how to report bugs. | ||
| 9 | 7 | ||
| 10 | See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other | 8 | See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other |
| 11 | user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs. | 9 | user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs. |
| 12 | 10 | ||
| 13 | The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on | ||
| 14 | various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this | ||
| 15 | directory. | ||
| 16 | |||
| 17 | The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that | 11 | The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that |
| 18 | occur in building, installing and running Emacs. | 12 | occur in building, installing and running Emacs. |
| 19 | 13 | ||
| 20 | Reports of bugs in Emacs should be sent to the mailing list | 14 | You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report |
| 21 | bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs | 15 | them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since |
| 22 | manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' | 16 | they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or |
| 23 | in this directory explains how you can find and read that section | 17 | in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released |
| 24 | using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' | 18 | versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
| 25 | for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages. | 19 | Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions |
| 20 | from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bugs@gnu.org. | ||
| 21 | |||
| 22 | See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how | ||
| 23 | to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you | ||
| 24 | can find and read that section using the Info files that come with | ||
| 25 | Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists | ||
| 26 | relating to GNU packages. | ||
| 26 | 27 | ||
| 27 | The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital | 28 | The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital |
| 28 | letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU | 29 | letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU |
| @@ -86,20 +87,3 @@ There are several subdirectories: | |||
| 86 | that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The | 87 | that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The |
| 87 | platform-specific README files and installation instructions should | 88 | platform-specific README files and installation instructions should |
| 88 | list the required tools. | 89 | list the required tools. |
| 89 | |||
| 90 | VMS info: | ||
| 91 | |||
| 92 | Emacs 19.x and above do not compile out of the box on OpenVMS. | ||
| 93 | Richard Levitte <levitte@lp.se> is distributing and maintaining a | ||
| 94 | version of Emacs (currently based on version 19.28, but soon moving to | ||
| 95 | 19.34 and then 20.1) that compiles and works on OpenVMS 5.5 and above | ||
| 96 | on both VAX and Alpha architectures. For more information see | ||
| 97 | |||
| 98 | http://www.lp.se/gnu-vms/software/released1/emacs.html | ||
| 99 | |||
| 100 | There is also some effort going on with Emacs 21. Source code is | ||
| 101 | available at ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/vms/emacs/. Look for most | ||
| 102 | recent stuff with ls -lta. | ||
| 103 | |||
| 104 | It is a working "development" version (editing and much more works). | ||
| 105 | More developers are needed; contact roart@nvg.ntnu.no. | ||