ccm@CS.CMU.EDU (Christopher McConnell) (10/16/90)
Version 3.0 of the EMACS to LISP interface ILISP is now available. If you have gotten ILISP prior to today, you should get the new version. The new version fixes a number of bugs and is much improved in its handling of packages, symbol completion, compiling and initialization. FEATURES: +Support for multiple LISP dialects including Lucid, Allegro and CMU. +Dynamically sized pop-up windows that can be buried and scrolled from any window. +Packages are properly handled including the distinction between exported and internal symbols. +Synchronous, asynchronous or batch eval and compile of files, regions, definitions and sexps. +Arglist, documentation, describe, and macroexpand. +Completion of filenames and LISP symbols. +Find source through LISP with tags as a backup. +Edit the callers of a function. +Trace/untrace a function. +Esc-q works properly on paragraphs in comments, strings and code. +Find unbalanced parentheses. +Super brackets. +Handles editing, entering and indenting full LISP expressions. +Next/previous and similar history mechanism compatible with comint. +Handles LISP errors. HOW TO GET IT If you do start using the package, please send mail to ccm@cs.cmu.edu so that I can keep a mailing list of users. Any comments or code are also welcome. You can anonymously ftp the source files from CMU: - Ftp to a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.242.7) or any other SCS machine. - cd /afs/cs/user/ccm/afs/src/gnu/ilisp/ Don't try to cd to or ls any of the intermediate directories; go straight to the subdirectory. The CMU security mechanisms will block you from accessing any of the other directories while you are doing anonymous accesses. - get ilisp.tar.Z or mget README popper.el comint.el comint-ipc.el ilisp.el ilisp-*.lisp Of course, anyone with AFS access at CMU, Dartmouth, Michigan, MIT, Mt. Xinu or Transarc can just cd to the directory and copy what they want. ONCE YOU HAVE IT: 1) uncompress ilisp.tar.Z; tar xf ilisp.tar 2) Read the start of ilisp/ilisp.el for the site and .emacs information. -- Chris McConnell "Sometimes noise is significant."--William Hewlett