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Installing TRAMP into Emacs.
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If you use the version that comes with your Emacs, the following
information is not necessary.  Installing TRAMP into your Emacs is a
relatively easy process, at least compared to rebuilding your machine
from scratch. ;)

   Seriously though, the installation should be a fairly simple matter.
The easiest way to proceed is as follows:

   * Choose a directory, say `~/emacs/'.  Change into that directory
     and unpack the tarball.  This will give you a directory
     `~/emacs/tramp-2.0.38/' which contains subdirectories `lisp' for
     the Lisp code and `texi' for the documentation.  Make a symbolic
     link:

          ln -s tramp-2.0.38 tramp

   * `cd' to `~/emacs/tramp/' and type `./configure' to configure Tramp
     for your system.

     Running `configure' takes awhile.  While running, it prints some
     messages telling which features it is checking for.

   * Type `make' to build the byte-compiled Lisp files as well as the
     Info manual.

   * Type `make install' to install the Tramp Lisp files and Info
     manual.

   * You can remove the byte-compiled Lisp files and the Info manual
     from the source directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove
     the files that `configure' created, type `make distclean'.

   * NOTE: If you run into problems running the example `make' command,
     don't despair.  You can still byte compile the `*.el' files by
     opening Emacs in `dired' (`C-x d') mode, at `~/emacs/tramp/lisp'.
     Mark the lisp files with `m', then press `B' to byte compile your
     selections.

     Something similar can be done to create the info manual.  Just
     change to directory `~/emacs/tramp/texi' and load the `tramp.texi'
     file in Emacs.  Then press `M-x texinfo-format-buffer <RET>' to
     generate `~/emacs/tramp/info/tramp'.

Installation parameters

Parameters in order to control installation.

Load paths

How to plug-in TRAMP into your environment.

Japanese manual

Japanese manual.