Ion
===
-Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2007.
+Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2009.
tuomov at iki.fi
Building and installing
-----------------------
-1. Make sure you have the following tools and libraries installed:
+1. Make sure you have the following tools and libraries installed (along
+ with, of course, standard X11 and libc stuff).
- * GNU make
- * Lua 5.1 (see <http://www.lua.org/>).
+ * GNU make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
+ * Lua 5.1 <http://www.lua.org/>
+ * gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
-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.
3. If you want to build some extra modules now or do not want to build
some of the standard modules, edit `modulelist.mk`.
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.
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:
<http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/mime-support.html>
15 05 * * * $SHAREDIR/ion-completeman -mksyscache
- Replace `$SHAREDIR` with the setting from `system.mk` (or `system-ac.mk`
- if you used autoconf). This example runs daily at 05:15, but you may
- modify the run times to your needs; see the crontab manual.
+ Replace `$SHAREDIR` with the setting from `system.mk`. This example
+ runs daily at 05:15, but you may modify the run times to your needs;
+ see the crontab manual.
If you can't or do not want to build a system-wide man page cache, run
`crontab -e` as your normal user and replace `-mksyscache` with
`-mk*cache` argument once manually to build the initial cache.
If the `MANPATH` environment variable is not set on your system and it
- does not have the `manpath` command (or it does not print anything
+ does not have the `manpath` command (or it does not print anything
sensible), you may also want to set the `ION_MANPATH` environment
variable to the list of paths where the system stores manual pages.
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
-<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-examples.en.html#s13.4.5>.
+The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on seems to have been originally
+written by Tomohiro Kubota, but see the file for details.
-Various patches have been contributed by other individuals unlisted here.
-See the mailing list archives and the darcs source repository history at
-<http://iki.fi/tuomov/repos/>. 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 <http://iki.fi/tuomov/repos/>. For translators
+see the individual `.po` files in `po/`.
See `libtu/README` for code by others integrated into libtu.
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