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author | zuntum <zuntum@pkgsrc.org> | 2001-11-01 00:20:13 +0000 |
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committer | zuntum <zuntum@pkgsrc.org> | 2001-11-01 00:20:13 +0000 |
commit | a437fd43cc3ece125446142af9ed27ef8c1e6621 (patch) | |
tree | 0862d71c7e976f8aa56175851882e33495f691e4 /lang/elisp-manual/DESCR | |
parent | d16ce86994df76c0a92af71f19eef6cc2507fe39 (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-a437fd43cc3ece125446142af9ed27ef8c1e6621.tar.gz |
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diff --git a/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR b/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..03bb4839b25 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ + Most of the GNU Emacs text editor is written in the programming +language called Emacs Lisp. You can write new code in Emacs Lisp and +install it as an extension to the editor. However, Emacs Lisp is more +than a mere ``extension language''; it is a full computer programming +language in its own right. You can use it as you would any other +programming language. + + Because Emacs Lisp is designed for use in an editor, it has special +features for scanning and parsing text as well as features for handling +files, buffers, displays, subprocesses, and so on. Emacs Lisp is +closely integrated with the editing facilities; thus, editing commands +are functions that can also conveniently be called from Lisp programs, +and parameters for customization are ordinary Lisp variables. + + This manual attempts to be a full description of Emacs Lisp. For a +beginner's introduction to Emacs Lisp, see ``An Introduction to +Emacs Lisp Programming,'' by Bob Chassell, also published by the Free +Software Foundation. This manual presumes considerable familiarity with +the use of Emacs for editing; see ``The GNU Emacs Manual'' for this +basic information. + + Generally speaking, the earlier chapters describe features of Emacs +Lisp that have counterparts in many programming languages, and later +chapters describe features that are peculiar to Emacs Lisp or relate +specifically to editing. + + This is edition 2.5. |