X230GV@TAMVM1.BITNET.UUCP (06/23/88)
Greetings. I carelessly discarded the message asking about the lisp manual, so: To whom it may concern, ;-) The following text appears in the file emacs/etc/MAILINGLISTS: The list, gnu-manual@a.cs.uiuc.edu, is a working group whose volunteers write, proofread and comment on the developing GNU Emacs Lisp programmers' manual. This little gem is almost as tantalizing as Stallman's reference to it in the Gnu Emacs Manual. But there's a little more substance to this one, because the manual does exist. The last time I saw a copy of it (which was in March) it was still in a rough state but already huge (and incredibly informative and useful). I don't know if anyone knows anything about when it will be released generally, and they might not tell anyone if they did. In any case, I seem to remember that it was something over 350 pages. Probably about 80% of the available functions were documented, although some of them needed some elaboration. The indexing needed some work, and the node structure for info was not complete. All in all, though, it was really very good, and I can't wait to see the finished version. Regards, Glenn Vanderburg
Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) (06/24/88)
In article <26179@bbn.COM>, X230GV@TAMVM1 (Glenn Vanderburg) writes: > The following text appears in the file emacs/etc/MAILINGLISTS: > The list, gnu-manual@a.cs.uiuc.edu, is a working group whose > volunteers write, proofread and comment on the developing GNU Emacs > Lisp programmers' manual. > This little gem is almost as tantalizing as Stallman's reference to it > in the Gnu Emacs Manual. But there's a little more substance to this one, > because the manual does exist. The last time I saw a copy of it (which was > in March) it was still in a rough state but already huge (and incredibly > informative and useful). Are there any plans to release an online version of this manual, preferably readable through the 'info' browser? With a manual this size, it would be much nicer to have the full power of Emacs to read it instead of doing it the old fashioned way by flipping pages :-). Just a thought... -- Ashwin. ARPA: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,harvard,cmcl2,...}!yale!Ram-Ashwin BITNET: Ram@yalecs
tony@nscpdc.NSC.COM (Tony Lipinsky) (10/07/88)
In-reply-to: ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv tut.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.60] has the pre-release version available in /gnu/lisp-manual as seen from anon ftp: 22744 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 1286 Sep 16 11:50 README.Z 22739 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 100000 Sep 16 14:04 elisp.dvi.Z-part-aa 22741 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 100000 Sep 16 14:05 elisp.dvi.Z-part-ab 22752 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 100000 Sep 16 14:05 elisp.dvi.Z-part-ac 22753 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 41295 Sep 16 14:05 elisp.dvi.Z-part-ad 22754 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 100000 Sep 16 14:05 elisp.tar.Z-part-aa 22755 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 100000 Sep 16 14:05 elisp.tar.Z-part-ab 22756 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 75808 Sep 16 14:05 elisp.tar.Z-part-ac 22746 -rw-r--r-- 2 bob root 34882 Sep 16 11:53 index.dvi.Z It's also available for UUCP on osu-cis as per instructions in comp.sources.d. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Could you please resubmit those UUCP instructions. I missed them the last time around. Thanks