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PRE-COMPILED BINARIES
=====================
If you have downloaded binaries for Gnu Emacs version 22 or 23, you
can unpack it to a directory, say ~/vm, and go to step (3) below.
However, this build assumes that you are not using any supporting
libraries such as BBDB, W3 or W3M. If you are using such libraries,
please rebuild VM as indicated below.
If you are using XEmacs, you need to do your own build.
USING CONFIGURE
===============
0) If you get VM from the revision control, the ./configure script is
not included. You have to run "autoconf" to create it. If you got
VM from a public release, you should skip this step.
1) Select your emacs flavor, this is the option --with-emacs and its
default is emacs (GNU Emacs). Choose a prefix for the installation
with --prefix, by default /usr/local.
The default locations are as follows:
a) GNU Emacs: lisp files goto ${prefix}/share/emacs/site-lisp and
info files to ${prefix}/info (overridable with --with-lispdir=...
and --infodir=...)
b) XEmacs: lisp files goto ${prefix}/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/vm and
info files to ${prefix}/lib/xemacs/site-packages/info, (overridable
with --with-lispdir=... and --infodir=...)
ATTENTION: Files byte-compiled with GNU Emacs are NOT COMPATIBLE with the
XEmacs and you may experience strange problems during startup when doing
so. Even between GNU Emacs versions there might be problems! Thus you must
ensure you are configuring with --with-emacs=xemacs when installing VM for
XEmacs! Also if you want to use BBDB or Emacs-w3m features please
specify the path to their source files with the -with-other-dirs option.
a) GNU Emacs+BBDB users run:
./configure --with-other-dirs=/absolute/path/to/bbdb/lisp
b) XEmacs+BBDB users run:
./configure --with-emacs=xemacs --with-other-dirs=/path/to/bbdb/lisp
c) GNU Emacs+BBDB+Emacs-w3m users run:
./configure --with-other-dirs="/absolute/path/to/bbdb/lisp;/absolute/path/to/emacs-w3m"
d) XEmacs with no additional packages
./configure --with-emacs=xemacs
It is currently not possible to build VM in a separate directory.
2) Compile everything by running:
make
You may ignore warnings, however error messages indicate that some modules
(partially) will not work, i.e. if other library files are missing or you
are running GNU Emacs.
3) Installing the files
a) The manual way
Add the "lisp" and "info" directories in the VM built directory to the
Emacs search paths, e.g. if you have built vm in ~/vm add the following
to your ~/.emacs resp. ~/.xemacs/init.el.
(add-to-list 'load-path
(expand-file-name "~/vm/lisp"))
(add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list
(expand-file-name "~/vm/info"))
GNU Emacs users, have to load the autoloads by hand by adding
(require 'vm-autoloads)
to their ~/.emacs. If there are any old VM-related autoloads in
your ~/.emacs file, you should remove them. The vm-autoloads
library takes care of all the autoloads for VM.
XEmacs: Since XEmacs has a built-in distribution of VM, you have two
options. (i) You can delete the built-in package in the XEmacs
xemacs-packages directory. Then the new copy of VM in ~/vm/lisp
will get loaded. (ii) You can include the following line in
your ~/.xemacs/init.el file:
(load-library "~/vm/lisp/auto-autoloads")
b) make install
Which might work, but might not work as most distros have their own
directory layout.
4) Add the following line to your info directory (dir):
* VM: (vm.info). VM Mail Reader
* VM-PCrisis: (vm-pcrisis.info). Personality Crisis package for VM
Note that vm-pcrisis is a separate add-on package (not officially a
part of VM).
You are now ready to use VM. C-h i should start up the Emacs Info
system and if you have installed the Info documents properly you can
use the online documentation to teach yourself how to use VM.
COMPANION PACAKAGES
===================
VM uses companion packages for address book maintenance and HTML
display. VM will work fine even if the companion packages are
unavailable, but the best functionality is obtained with them.
* BBDB or "Big Brother Insidious DataBase" is an address book
application that runs within Emacs. It is able to watch the email
addresses in the headers of your email addresses and record them in
the database.
Assuming that you have compiled VM with BBDB included in the
`lispdir' list, include the following lines in your .emacs to turn
on BBDB support:
(require 'bbdb)
(bbdb-initialize 'vm)
* For rendering HTML messages, VM can make use of the following Emacs
libraries:
- Emacs/W3 - a web browser written by William Perry in Emacs Lisp.
It is said to be slow and its current maintenance (in 2010) is
weak.
- Emacs/W3M - an Emacs interface to the text-mode web browser W3M.
For guidance on installing either of these libraries, please check
their EmacsWiki pages and their own installation instructions.
VM can also make use of the following external text-mode web
browsers (as basically converters from html to plain text).
- Lynx - A fast text-based web browser that runs under Unix.
Developed at the University of Kansas.
- W3M - Possibly the best text-based web browser. Written by
Akinori Ito and his team, it runs fast and renders pages
as true to form as possible in plain text.
VM can check the libraries available on your path and pick the best
one for HTML rendering, but you can also specify the choice
explicitly by including in your .emacs file, e.g.,
(setq vm-mime-text/html-handler 'emacs-w3m)
Other than 'emacs-w3m, you can also use 'w3, 'w3m and 'lynx.
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