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- Emacs for NeXTstep 4.1
- ======================
-
- This is the second public release of Emacs for NeXTstep (**). This is
- a version of GNU Emacs 19.28 (the latest release as of this writing)
- which has been enhanced so that it supports NeXTstep windows, colors,
- fonts, menus a.s.o. in the same way the stock Emacs 19 supports X. In
- addition it also supports some special NeXTstep only features like
- font and file panels, NeXTstep services, opening documents in Emacs by
- double-clicking them in the workspace, NeXTstep style pop up and pull
- down menus, cooperation with ProjectBuilder, drag and drop, ISOLatin
- character set, automatic saving on logout, NeXTstep defaults and a
- look and feel which honest people can describe as being different from
- ugly. None of the capabilities of GNU Emacs 19.28 have been lost, so
- this Emacs will still run without problems under a dumb terminal and
- virtually all Emacs Lisp software written for GNU Emacs under X will
- run without modifications under NeXTstep. Creating a single binary
- which will run under NeXTstep, X or a dumb terminal (depending on how
- it was launched) requires nothing more than recompiling the source
- with a different compiler switch (see installation instructions).
-
- So very likely this is the only Emacs you'll ever need which is lucky
- considering how big a complete Emacs installation is and how much work
- it can be. To reduce that amount of work, there are two archives
- available -- a quad fat binary-only Installer package
- Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.pkg.NIHS.b.tar.gz, and a full source
- distribution Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.src.NIHS.s.tar.gz (for PGP
- signatures see end of message).
-
- The binary distribution is fully functional, comes with complete
- online documentation and should only take a few minutes and less than
- 10 MBytes of disk space to install for a single architecture. If you
- don't have a developer package or the 40 MBytes or so of free disk
- space which installing Emacs from sources temporarily needs or you
- need a fat Emacs binary, you should get this package. However, you
- need to get and make the full source distribution under any of these
- conditions:
-
- (a) You run NeXTstep on any hardware other than NeXT, Intel, HP or
- Sparc hardware.
-
- (b) You need an Emacs binary which also runs under X.
-
- (c) You don't have write access to your /LocalApps directory and need
- to install Emacs somewhere else.
-
- (d) You want to dump a customized Emacs.
-
- (e) You don't just want to browse the online documentation but also
- want to print it out in a pretty form.
-
- (f) Your Emacs binary crashes immediately upon startup. An Emacs dumped under
- one release does not necessarily work on all others. That is why NeXT
- had to distribute a new Emacs with NS3.3. The binary package is
- compiled to work on as many machines as possible and there have
- been no reports that it actually crashes on any machine. But if
- this happens to you, recompile the source on your machine. It will
- work.
-
- For more details on how to customize Emacs to your liking, read the
- online documentation (menu item Info/Info) and in particular the NeXT
- specific sections (menu item Info/Info about Emacs for NS).
-
- Emacs for NeXTstep runs only under NS 3.x (and for best results use NS
- 3.2 or later).
-
-
- Carl Edman May 18, 1995
- <cedman@princeton.edu>
-
-
-
- ** So why in the world is it called version 4.1 ? To avoid confusion
- with the older Emacs.app interface (lately up to version 3.1) which
- is completely unrelated except for the fact that its author,
- Michael Brouwer, has been a major contributor to this project as
- well. And even he has replaced the old Emacs.app with Emacs for
- NeXTstep.
-
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