Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!ll-xn!husc6!yale!Ram-Ashwin From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs Lisp Manual Message-ID: <32076@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 23 Jun 88 21:09:27 GMT References: <26179@bbn.COM> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 23 In-reply-to: X230GV@TAMVM1.BITNET (Glenn Vanderburg) 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