Generic installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL that you received with the NEST sources.

Inside NEST, you can run the command help to find documentation and learn more about the available commands.

Please see ${prefix}/share/doc/nest/README.md for information about the Python bindings to NEST.

For information on the NEST Initiative, please visit it's homepage at http://www.nest-initiative.org

For copyright information please refer to the file LICENSE and to the information header in the source files.

Emacs users may use the SLI mode, which provides syntax highlighting for SLI. To install it, add the following lines to your .emacs file:

  (load-library "${prefix}/share/nest/extras/EditorSupport/emacs/postscript-sli")
  (load-library "${prefix}/share/nest/extras/EditorSupport/emacs/sli")

A simple syntax file for VIM users has been provided. Copy it to your vim configuration folder to make it available to VIM:

    $ cp ${prefix}/share/nest/extras/EditorSupport/vim/syntax/sli.vim ~/.vim/syntax/sli.vim

Then add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc file to use it:

    " sli
    au BufRead,BufNewFile *.sli set filetype=sli
    au FileType sli setl foldenable foldmethod=syntax