Organization of the repository ****************************** This repository has currently three branches: * 'master': the main branch of development of AUCTeX; * 'simplify-TeX-parse-error': a feature branch for improving parsing of TeX logs; * 'gendocspatch': keeps a patch to build on-line manuals and is intended to be used only by AUCTeX maintainers. Unless you are one of them and know how to handle it, you really do not want to pull this branch as it will be rebased frequently. Installation information ************************ If you retrieved AUCTeX via Git instead of as a regular release, there are some files that need to be generated from their respective source files before you can continue reasonably with the instructions detailed in the README and INSTALL files (which will not be present otherwise). Run the shell script ./autogen.sh in order to do that. This will also generate the respective files for the preview subsystem. You will need to have a working and rather current copy of `makeinfo', `autoconf' and of `perl'. Running ./autogen.sh on a fresh clone of the Git repository will give you the state of the distribution tarball, except that Git-specific files are not removed.