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- DON'T FORGET: This version of Emacs REQUIRES AMIGADOS V2.04 !!
-
- If you are updating from a previous version, the following steps apply:
- - You must redefine your GNUEMACS: assign (the name of the directory
- has changed from emacs-18.58 to emacs-18.59).
- - You should make sure you are using the lisp files (*.el and *.elc) which
- come with this release, as several of them have changed.
-
- New users should do the following (assuming you are in the emacs-18.59
- directory):
-
- 1. Copy amiga/.emacs, amiga/.emacs-menu.menu, amiga/.emacs-menu.el to s:
- 2. Copy amiga/c/#? to somewhere in your path.
- 3. Add an assign GNUEMACS: <wherever you've put the emacs directory> to
- your User-Startup.
- 4. Install Matt Dillon's fifo.library and fifo: handler if you want to use
- external processes (This can be found on Fish disks). If you have any
- problems, try a version at least as recent as that on Fish Disk 588.
- 5. Define various environment variables (these all have defaults, so this
- isn't absolutely necessary, except for ESHELL) :
-
- USER - a username (a la Unix) (default "user")
- USERNAME - your full name (default same as $USER)
- HOME - your "home" directory (This is the directory refered to
- by ~/<file>, and where the .emacs file is looked for)
- (default "s:").
- HOSTNAME - a name for your system (default "amiga")
- ESHELL - where to find an unix-like shell (no default). By unix-like
- I mean that it should not open a window to get its input.
- The only tested value for this is GNUEMACS:etc/sh.
-
- For instance, I have the following values:
- USER: dgay, USERNAME: David E. Gay, HOSTNAME: owl,
- ESHELL: gnuemacs:etc/sh
-
- 6. If you want to check that emacs is working, type
-
- assign gnuemacs: ""
- emacs
-
- If all goes well, emacs should open a window. If you get
- memacs: Unknown command
- you have an alias for emacs. Try editing s:Shell-Startup and removing it.
-
- If you get
- emacs: file is not executable
- try typing
- protect <wherever you put the commands from step 2>/emacs +s
-
- And finally, if you get
- wrong number of arguments
- if failed returncode 10
- make sure that you have getstack in your path
-
- 7. If you are going to use emacs over a serial line, you must install
- the termcap file, which comes with the source version. To do so, type:
-
- join gnuemacs:etc/termcap.ucb gnuemacs:etc/termcap.amiga as s:termcap
-