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. The directory contains several pre-compiled printable and
hypertext versions of the documentation.

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 specify "NE_TERMCAP=1" (i.e., type "make NE_TERMCAP=1").
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 options: none, "NE_POSIX=1", "NE_TERMCAP=1" and then both of
them. 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 specify "NE_ANSI=1" to build a copy
of ne that will use by default built-in ANSI terminal control sequences.
You can always override this choice with a command line option, however.
By combining "NE_ANSI=1" and "NE_TERMCAP=1" you will get a version of ne
that needs no library, and moreover starts by default in ANSI mode.

ne can handle UTF-8, and supports multiple-column characters. The latter
requires some support from the system: you can disable wide-character,
multiple-column support with "NE_NOWCHAR=1".

If you cannot install ne as root, you can change the position of the
global preferences directory by with "NE_GLOBAL_DIR=<directory>". The
global directory should contain automatic preferences files for common
extension, and must contain the syntax directory provided with ne's
distribution, which contains joe's syntax definition files. In any case,
the global directory can be set with the environment variable
NE_GLOBAL_DIR, and it is displayed at startup if no file is open.

If something does not work, please feel free to email 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)
