+* Content
+
This package contains a development version of Gnus. The lisp directory
contains the source lisp files, and the texi directory contains the Gnus info
pages.
+* Emacsen
+
+No Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 21 or
+XEmacs 21.4.
+
+Users of the Emacs development version (Emacs 23) are strongly encouraged to
+also use the version bundled with Emacs.
+
+* Setup
+
To use Gnus you first have to unpack the files, which you've obviously
done, because you are reading this.
-You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you
+You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you
can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory.
Do not say "make install". I repeat, do *NOT* say "make install". If
If you are using XEmacs, you *must* say "./configure && make EMACS=xemacs".
-Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is. You might put something
+Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is. You might put something
like
- (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/gnus-5.10.8/lisp") load-path))
+ (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/ngnus-0.11/lisp") load-path))
(require 'gnus-load)
in your .emacs file, or wherever you keep such things.
(require 'info)
(if (featurep 'xemacs)
- (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/gnus-5.10.8/texi/")
- (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/gnus-5.10.8/texi/"))
-
-No Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 21.1 or
-XEmacs 21.4.
+ (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list &