3.8 What informational files are available for Emacs?

This isn't a frequently asked question, but it should be! A variety of informational files about Emacs and relevant aspects of the GNU project are available for you to read.

The following files (and others) are available in the etc directory of the Emacs distribution (see File-name conventions, if you're not sure where that is). Many of these files are available via the Emacs ‘Help’ menu, or by typing C-h ? (M-x help-for-help).

COPYING

GNU General Public License

DISTRIB

Emacs Availability Information

GNU

The GNU Manifesto

INTERVIEW

Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible software system with BYTE editors

MACHINES

Status of Emacs on Various Machines and Systems

MAILINGLISTS

GNU Project Electronic Mailing Lists

NEWS

Emacs news, a history of recent user-visible changes

More GNU information, including back issues of the GNU's Bulletin, are at

http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bulletins.html and

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/gnu.html