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.

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 (such as the keypad home key).

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 "TERMCAP=1" (i.e., type "make 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, "NOPOSIX=1",
"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 "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 multiple-column support
with "NOWCHAR=1".

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)
