Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!bbn!gateway!TAMVM1.BITNET!X230GV From: X230GV@TAMVM1.BITNET.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs Lisp Manual Message-ID: <26179@bbn.COM> Date: 23 Jun 88 15:08:51 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Organization: BBN news/mail gateway Lines: 23 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