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author | dholland <dholland@pkgsrc.org> | 2013-08-03 21:47:00 +0000 |
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committer | dholland <dholland@pkgsrc.org> | 2013-08-03 21:47:00 +0000 |
commit | 6a62cc0fd05cd832e11fc486bb8ffc83c545bde0 (patch) | |
tree | 2a4670c2f07ea3df83f6a534612ca5fefc685a20 /lang | |
parent | de49435e8a6ec186ffe3c9e9cbfedd60bfb4e940 (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-6a62cc0fd05cd832e11fc486bb8ffc83c545bde0.tar.gz |
Shorten. Note that this is the emacs21 manual and emacs22+ come with
the elisp manual in the base package.
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR b/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR index 18dc500b390..4ae87894dbc 100644 --- a/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR +++ b/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR @@ -1,25 +1,16 @@ - 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. +Herein is found the programming manual for elisp (Emacs Lisp), the +dialect of Lisp used to extend (and write applications inside) GNU +Emacs. - 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. +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. All Emacs +editing commands are available. - 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. +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 see ``The GNU Emacs Manual''. - 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 package contains the manual corresponding to Emacs 21.x. For +Emacs 22 and up, the Lisp manual is included in the main Emacs +distribution and consequently in the main Emacs package. |