From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how to *find news, doc, etc* on cvs emacs? Date: 26 Jul 2006 18:05:52 -0400 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153953639 15247 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2006 22:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 27 00:40:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5s3I-0003M2-Qd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5s3I-00017K-Al for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!panix3.panix.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 77 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1153951553 13521 166.84.1.3 (26 Jul 2006 22:05:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140642 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36268 Archived-At: First, I use lynx as browser (knows not javascript). I've gone to the savannah (cvs) emacs site, but that seemed to get me nowhere. What I want, before grabbing it (cvs emacs), is to see some doc on it, maybe NEWS, Any idea of where to find this? BTW, here's what I was told some time ago (a year ago?), about downloading the actual cvs sources -- are they still correct?: [] emacs: ********* how to grab the cvs version of emacs I asked this earlier, I recall, but cannot find the answer anywhere. Sorry. | dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote: | | > Could someone show me some | > "for total-dummies" recipe for actually grabbing the CVS emacs? | | cd into the directory you would like the emacs sources to be in. | (for example, I put all my cvs snarfed programs into /build) | | then type: | cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs login | | when you are prompted for a password just press return. | (the password for anonymous access is the empty string) | | then type: | cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs | (co means checkout) | | bingo! you should have an emacs source tree. | | Read emacs/INSTALL-CVS, especially: | | Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as | byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository. | Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap" | instead of just "make": | | $ ./configure | $ make bootstrap | | | After some time has passed you might want to update your sources, to | get recent changes. I'm not sure what is the best way to do that, | but a straightforward way is to type: | -more- http://groups.google.com/grphp?hl=en | | | | After some time has passed you might want to update your sources, to | get recent changes. I'm not sure what is the best way to do that, | but a straightforward way is to type: | | cvs up | | from within the emacs directory. Thanks! David