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GNU Emacs is a popular free programmer's editor for UNIX and Windows.
To add version control support for NTEmacs follow these steps:

1. Install CS-RCS and follow the tutorial.

2. Download vc-hooks.el and copy into your Emacs Lisp directory.

3. Open vc-hooks.el with Emacs.

4. Apply the 'Emacs-Lisp' | 'Byte-compile This File' menu command.

5. Open your ~/.emacs file (or create a new one if does not exist). (See below on how to define your home directory)

6. Add the two following lines to the file ~/.emacs:
   (load "vc-hooks")
   (setq vc-path "C:/program files/ComponentSoftware/cs-rcs/system")
   Note: change vc-path to match your workstation settings

7. Save ~/.emacs and exit Emacs.

8. Re-activate Emacs. Version control context-sensitive commands are now available under the Tools | Version Control menu.

Notes:

• The CS-RCS integration works with Emacs 19, 20 and 21.

• The NTEmacs home page is: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

• You can download NTEmacs from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/latest (Download emacs-VER-bin-i386_tar.gz)

• One way to define your "~" folder ("HOME" directory) is by the following registry key value: (refer to the NTEmacs FAQ for full details)
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs]
  "HOME"="C:\\emacs"

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Last modified: March 27, 2003