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Welcome to ne, the nice editor.
Documentation (in the "doc" directory) is provided in the form of a texinfo
file. It can be printed as a manual using TeX and GNU's texinfo.tex macro
package, or turned into a hypertext document using GNU's makeinfo. You will
then need info, the GNU hypertext reader, to read it. A ready-to-use
hypertext version of the documentation is contained in the ne.info* files
(just use "info -f ne" to read it) and in the html files (just read
ne_toc.html with any browser). A PostScript file with an a4 ready-to-print
version of the documentation that uses the standard Times and Courier fonts
is also included. As a last chance, ne.txt is a purely ASCII version.
The "terms" directory contains the terminfo sources for a couple of common
terminals. They include a much larger number of key capabilities than usually
found. They can be compiled locally with tic so to be able to use additional
keys (such as the keypad home key).
If you have a POSIX compliant machine with a terminfo database, a
recompilation of ne's sources on your machine will suffice for making it work
(just cd into the "src" directory and start make). If you have a termcap
database, you should use the "termcap" target (i.e., type "make termcap"). It
uses the GNU version of termcap, whose sources are included (no library is
needed). In general, if a compilation fails you should try the following
targets: none, "noposix", "termcap" and "termcapnoposix". They use slightly
different #define's to overcome the slight differences among systems. If you
have problem with the local compiler and have the GNU compiler installed, try
CC=gcc, and possibly also OPTS=-ansi.
If you are compiling under Cygwin or similar emulations of UN*X running
under other operating systems, you can use the "ansi" target to build a copy
of ne that will use built-in ANSI terminal control sequences if a terminal
database cannot be found. This is very useful because you get a completely
stand-alone ne (the "ansi" target uses the termcap database, so no library
is necessary).
If something does not work, please feel free to e-mail us.
Compatibility problems are also discussed in the documentation. Don't be
alarmed if you get a lot of warnings. If the symbol NODEBUG is not defined
during the compilation, a number of assertions will be compiled into the
program. This can be useful for the first tests, but should be avoided in
common usage.
seba (vigna@dsi.unimi.it)
Todd (Todd_Lewis@unc.edu)
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