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From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs Lisp Manual
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Date: 23 Jun 88 21:09:27 GMT
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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.

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