Welcome to ne, the nice editor.

This is the first distribution archive for ne. The program is in an advanced
beta stage, with most features implemented in a completely satisfactory way.

Some of the code still needs a bit of cleanup, and more comments, but it should
be rather readable. Hopefully, you will not have to read it at all.

Documentation for ne 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 an hypertext document using GNU's makeinfo. You will then need
info, the GNU hypertext reader, in order to read it. A ready-to-use hypertext
version of the documentation is contained in the ne.info* files (just use "info
-f ne.info" in order to read it). A PostScript file with an a4 ready-to-print
version of the documentation which uses the standard Times and Courier fonts is
also included.

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). Otherwise, please feel free to e_mail me.
Compatibility problems are also discussed in the documentation. Note that the
distribution Makefile is set for the GNU compiler, but any ANSI C compliant
system should do the job. Don't be alarmed if you get a lot of warnings. Note
that if the symbol DEBUG is 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.

This is my first attempt to a major software project under UN*X. Thus, even if
my past experience on other systems make me feel rather sure about the
functionality of the program, it is perfectly possible that some things
strictly related to UN*X have been done in a non-optimal way. Suggestions on
how to improve the code quality are welcome.


							seba
