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Subject: man entry for emacs
Reply-To: pfkrause@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
The man entry for emacs (/usr/man/man1/emacs.1) mentions the
following files, which do not exist:
FILES
/usr/local/emacs/src - C source files and object files
/usr/local/emacs/lisp - Lisp source files and compiled files
that define most editing commands. Some are preloaded; oth-
ers are autoloaded from this directory when used.
/usr/local/emacs/man - sources for the Emacs reference
manual.
/usr/local/emacs/etc - various programs that are used with
GNU Emacs, and some files of information.
/usr/local/emacs/etc/DOC.* - contains the documentation
strings for the Lisp primitives and preloaded Lisp functions
of GNU Emacs. They are stored here to reduce the size of
Emacs proper.
/usr/local/emacs/etc/DIFF discusses GNU Emacs vs. Twenex
Emacs;
/usr/local/emacs/etc/CCADIFF discusses GNU Emacs vs. CCA
Emacs;
/usr/local/emacs/etc/GOSDIFF discusses GNU Emacs vs. Gosling
Emacs.
/usr/local/emacs/etc/SERVICE lists people offering various
services to assist users of GNU Emacs, including education,
troubleshooting, porting and customization.
These files also have information useful to anyone wishing
to write programs in the Emacs Lisp extension language,
which has not yet been fully documented.
/usr/local/emacs/info - files for the Info documentation
browser (a subsystem of Emacs) to refer to. Currently not
much of Unix is documented here, but the complete text of
the Emacs reference manual is included in a convenient tree
structured form.
/usr/local/emacs/lock - holds lock files that are made for
all files being modified in Emacs, to prevent simultaneous
modification of one file by two users.
/usr/local/emacs/cpp - the GNU cpp, needed for building
Emacs on certain versions of Unix where the standard cpp
cannot handle long names for macros.
/usr/local/emacs/shortnames - facilities for translating
long names to short names in C code, needed for building
Emacs on certain versions of Unix where the C compiler can-
not handle long names for functions or variables.
Please amend the documentation to list the correct pathnames for these
files and what lockers, if any, need to be attached in order to read
them (I would like to know where they are).
-paul
pfkrause@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
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