danger@tahoe.UUCP (Garrett Dangerfield) (12/09/86)
Please forgive me if this has been asked before, but does anyone know of any documentation or manuals available for Emacs Lisp? Or, if not that, the differences between Emacs Lisp and other lisps (in partic- ular Franz). Thanx in advance. Garrett Dangerfield (danger@tahoe.UUCP) ----------------- "All is one, have some fun"
gaynor@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Silver) (12/10/86)
I would be interested in not just a manual on GNU Emacs Lisp, but also a description of the conventions and practices used in the standard code, and stuff like that. I think it would be a real good idea to include a reference manual and information on programming practices in the info tree - I'm sure that many people would make heavy use of it. Comments? Silver. /-------------------------------------------------\ | uucp: ...!topaz!gaynor ...!topaz!remus!gaynor | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | arpa: gaynor@topaz silver@gold | \-------------------------------------------------/
liberte@uiucdcsb.UUCP (12/11/86)
There is a mailing list of people interested in working on creating a GNU Emacs Lisp programmers manual. This group seems to be composed of volunteers who are already busy with other tasks. Perfectly understandable. So let me take this opportunity to renew the ranks. There is alot of work involved in writing a thoroughly complete programmers manual. You don't have to do all of it since the project is easily subdivided. We need people to take one topic and write it up. We have plenty of proofreaders who will pick at the details. We will also need people to TeXify the documents, once we get them. So far, we have an outline of all the functions, a tutorial and a chapter on functions. These are available on request. gnu-manual for automatic forwarding to the whole list gnu-manual-request or myself (liberte) for special handling The address is: arpanet gnu-manual@a.cs.uiuc.edu csnet gnu-manual@uiuc.csnet usenet ihnp4!uiucdcs!gnu-manual Dan LaLiberte U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
liberte@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu (12/16/86)
How embarrassing. I did the once-a-year accidental 'rm' and removed my accumulated list of people who want to either be added to the gnu-manual list to help with the manual, or to get a copy of the existing documents. So everyone who has sent me mail must do so again. Sorry. I received a dozen or so requests for the existing documents and may post to comp.sources.unix if more come in. gnu-manual for automatic forwarding to the whole list gnu-manual-request or myself (liberte) for special handling The address is: arpanet gnu-manual@a.cs.uiuc.edu csnet gnu-manual@uiuc.csnet usenet ihnp4!uiucdcs!gnu-manual --------------- Dan LaLiberte liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu liberte@uiuc.csnet ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte
wsnow@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/21/87)
Where can I find documentation for EmacsLisp?
mike@BUCASB.BU.EDU.UUCP (02/21/87)
Because it doesn't really exist. A group of people are working on it. I will send you their mailing list if you are interested. Michael Cohen ---- Center for Adaptive Systems Boston University (617-353-7857)
fox@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk (Paul Fox) (05/12/88)
Does anyone out there know of any documentation describing the syntax/features/
mis-features of the Emacs Lisp language (specifically GNUEmacs). We've
got books on Lisp and Common-Lisp, but I want to know to what extent
the the Emacs Lisp functions are primitives or just other
lisp functions.
I am currently working on a rewrite of BRIEF, which runs under Unix,
and want to be able to load the standard .el files. The BRIEF macro
language is lisp-ish, but the syntax is similar to Lisp, so the
parser shouldn't present a problem.
I prefer not to look at the Emacs code, since it is far too complicated,
and I do not want to plaguarise such a nice program. Imitation
is the sincerest form of flattery :-)).
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_/_/ _/_/ UUCP: fox@alice.marlow.reuters.co.ukkevin@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Kevin Van Horn) (07/29/88)
Can anyone out there tell me where to find a document describing Emacs-lisp? Please send mail (I don't normally read this newsgroup). Kevin S. Van Horn
bruce@hpcvra.HP.COM (Bruce Stephens) (08/02/88)
I would like to know where to get Emacs-lisp documentation also, so could someone please e-mail me a pointer to it (or just post a pointer here). -- Bruce Stephens bruce%hp-pcd@hp-labs.HP.COM