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diff --git a/README b/README
index 0769ba6..226bbe4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -17,17 +17,8 @@ Building and installing
* GNU make
* Lua 5.1 (see ).
-2. a) Edit `system.mk` to suit your system. Most GNU/Linux users should
- need very few changes.
-
- b) Alternatively, go to the directory `build/ac`, run `autoreconf`
- and then `./configure`. Switch back to the top lvel directory
- afterwards. See `build/ac/README.autoconf` for details on parameters,
- especially if you are using the Debian Lua packages. If you try
- this method and it fails for some reason, please make sure
- `build/ac/system-ac.mk` does not exist before falling back to
- alternative a). Also in such a case, find someone else to complain
- to: I (tuomov) will have nothing to do with autoconf.
+2. Edit `system.mk` to suit your system. Most GNU/Linux users should
+ need very few changes.
3. If you want to build some extra modules now or do not want to build
some of the standard modules, edit `modulelist.mk`.
@@ -50,7 +41,7 @@ Building and installing
if you're using some X display/login manager. If `~/.xsession` does not
help and you're not using a display manager, modifying `~/.xinitrc` or
creating one based on your system's `xinitrc` (wherever that may be;
- use locate) may be what you need to do. Note that unlike `.xsession`,
+ use `locate`) may be what you need to do. Note that unlike `.xsession`,
a `.xinitrc` should usually do much more setup than simply start a few
programs of your choice.
@@ -64,11 +55,11 @@ Some optional installation steps
1. The F5 and F6 keys expect to find the program `run-mailcap` to select
a program to view a file based on its guessed MIME type. Unless you are
using Debian, most likely you don't have it, but any other similar
- program (or just plain old text editor) will do as well - just the bindings
- in `cfg_ioncore.lua`. Of course, if you don't want to use the feature at
- this time or never, you may simply skip this step. If you want to use
- `run-mailcap`, it can be found from the following address, as a source
- tarball as well:
+ program (or just plain old text editor) will do as well -- just modify the
+ bindings in `cfg_ioncore.lua`. Of course, if you don't want to use the
+ feature at this time or never, you may simply skip this step. If you want
+ to use `run-mailcap`, it can be found from the following address, as a
+ source tarball as well:
@@ -118,20 +109,18 @@ Credits
Ion was written by Tuomo Valkonen.
-The autoconf script written by Tom Payne for the most part.
-
The dock module was written by Tom Payne and Per Olofsson.
-`share/ion-completefile/ion-completefile.c` is based on editline, (c)
+`utils/ion-completefile/ion-completefile.c` is based on editline, (c)
1992 Simmule Turner and Rich Salz. See the file for details.
-The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on was apparently originally written
-by Tomohiro Kubota; see
+The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on was apparently originally
+written by Tomohiro Kubota; see
.
-Various patches have been contributed by other individuals unlisted here.
-See the mailing list archives and the darcs source repository history at
-. For translators see the individual `.po`
-files in `po/`.
+Various (minor) patches have been contributed by other individuals
+unlisted here. See the mailing list archives and the darcs source
+repository history at . For translators
+see the individual `.po` files in `po/`.
See `libtu/README` for code by others integrated into libtu.