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diff --git a/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR b/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR index 18dc500b390..52bbfe5659c 100644 --- a/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR +++ b/lang/elisp-manual/DESCR @@ -1,25 +1,22 @@ - 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. +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. +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. +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. +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. |