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Re: Documentation bug
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation bug |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:16:47 +0200 |
> From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:33:21 -0800
>
> Only *VERY* experienced users would know what could be axed, unaided,
> and it seems at least somewhat like the inexperienced user such as
> student users may run into a situation where paring down an emacs
> install is needed.
>
> A tidbit in info would help a lot with that. In fact I think it might
> be worth including some general guideline for trimming emacs somewhere
> in the INSTALL file or README etc.
An appendix about a minimal installation is a far cry from a
full-blown documentation of those programs. I agree that it would be
nice to have such guidelines somewhere in the docs.
> Is etc/term.src critical to tty colors?
Nothing is critical to tty colors except the Emacs binary. The file
tty-colors.el is preloaded, and the rest of the support is in C and in
other preloaded files. Even rgb.txt (the one which comes with the
Emacs distribution) can be nuked, since tty-colors.el has its own
copy of the X colors.
> I removed all of the tools in libexec except fns-21*.el .. there were
> no comments in the file so I never figured out what it did.
It tells Emacs which functions are preloaded; this is important for
some documentation features you don't want to lose.
> I removed all info and man stuff, I can always look at that stuff on
> my home install, nearly all of the files in etc, leaving DOC-21.1
> rgb.txt. I removed term.src which may be the source of my failure.
What failure is that? If colors don't work, check out the PROBLEMS
file, it has an entry about such problems.
> I got it down to something like 16mb that needed to go in my account
> directory. included bin, libexec(one file) share etc(DOC-21.l file)
Strip the binaries, especially the Emacs excutable: that would
release a few MBs. But that comes at a price: you won't be able to
produce any useful information if Emacs crashes.
> Would the bare emacs binary with no *el[c] files be able to produce
> tty colors?
Yes, definitely. But you should at least keep the file(s) in
lisp/term/ which are loaded by your terminal (look at the TERM
variable and then look for the file by that name in lisp/term; it
might include other files as well). Color support doesn't depend on
these files, but special function keys support does.