[net.emacs] GNU Emacs Lisp manual

jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) (04/23/86)

What is the status of the GNU Emacs Lisp Manual--does anybody have one?

Thanks.

-- 
				Joseph Arceneaux
				Lafayette, LA

				{akgua, ut-sally}!usl!jla

jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) (05/08/86)

In response to a couple of queries concerning my question about the GNU
Emacs Lisp manual, I submit the following reply:

> There is no emacs lisp manual yet.  I have offered to coordinate the effort
> of writing a GNU Emacs Programmers manual.  I did not get very many offers
> to help, but am going ahead anyway.  Class work at the end of semester is
> getting in the way now.
> 
> Dan LaLiberte
> liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu
> liberte@uiuc.csnet
> ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte

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				Joseph Arceneaux
				Lafayette, LA

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brosen@inmet.UUCP (05/15/86)

Hi, 

I'd like to help with the Emacs LISP manual.
I have some Emacs LISP experience, though no other LISP experience.
As an example, I just finished implementing a floating point package
for Emacs LISP, which uses cons-ed pairs for (mantissa, exponent),
and implements the usual arithmetic operations plus conversion between
ints, strings, and floats.  Then I wrote a "calculator mode" on top of
it which has a structure that looks like dc(1).
I consider myself competent, but not a dyed-in-the-wool hacker
at Emacs LISP.  However, I am very good at things like editing
and proofreading.  

I have already contributed some minor software to rms (mostly 
to get GNU Emacs to run on a Vax running AT&T System V).  Please let
me know how I can help.

Bill Rosenblatt
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

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