X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=ion3.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=226bbe43ef8ffa83c1d0a6142fafd2ec78d296ad;hp=62684eeaeeb413e5db9fe1288425d4e1d47dabe9;hb=96fd54b514d893d3cececac69af8d77b0346bf05;hpb=8366314611bf30a0f31d25bf5f5023186fa87692 diff --git a/README b/README index 62684ee..226bbe4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Ion === -Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2006. +Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2007. tuomov at iki.fi @@ -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 little modifications to `system.mk`. - - b) Alternatively, go to the directory `build/ac`, run `autoreconf` - and then `./configure`. Switch back to the top 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_bindings.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: @@ -93,7 +84,7 @@ Some optional installation steps 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 - sensible), you may also want to set the `ION_MC_MANPATH` environment + sensible), you may also want to set the `ION_MANPATH` environment variable to the list of paths where the system stores manual pages. @@ -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.