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How do I get started developing XEmacs?

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How do I get started developing XEmacs?

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First, get yourself set up under CVS so that you can access the CVS repositories containing the XEmacs sources and the XEmacs packages. Next, set up your layout. This is important, as a good layout will facilitate getting things done efficiently, while a bad layout will could lead to disaster, as you can’t figure out which code is the most recent, which can be thrown away, etc. We suggest the following layout: (feel free to make changes) • Everything goes under `/src/xemacs’ (use a different directory if you want). From now, instead of saying `/src/xemacs’, we use `‘, to make it easier in case someone picked a different directory. • Package source is in `/package-src’. • Installed packages go under `/xemacs-packages’, and `/mule-packages’. • A “workspace” is a complete copy of the sources, in which you do work of a particular kind. Workspaces can be differentiated by which branch of the source tree they extend off of — usually either the stable

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