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 texi2html or GNU's
makeinfo. The directory contains several pre-compiled printable and hypertext
version 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_NOPOSIX=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.

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 value of the
GLOBALDIR variable present in the makefile so to point at some
other place.

If something does not work, please feel free to e-mail 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)


P.S.: The "terms" directory contains the terminfo sources for a couple of
common terminals, in case your own database has problems.  They can be
compiled locally with tic. They are mainly of historical interest, and
belong to an era (the begininning of ne's development) in which terminal
databases were frequently poorly configured.
