[412] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Software suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad brown)
Thu Jan 4 21:10:19 1996
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: rptaurie@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU, emacsdev@MIT.EDU,
wchuang@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 17:00:13 EST."
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 21:10:09 EST
From: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Mike is showing his lack of emacs-trivia knowledge. :-)
There is an existing elisp reference in info format that Rich is
talking about - he's just suggesting an entry in the default info file
(about 45 characters in a particular file on the syspacks). The main
obstacle to this is that elisp has changed with new versions of emacs,
so there are multiple versions of the elisp manual. Really, though,
there's only 2 - one for emacs 18 variants and one for emacs 19
variants. If the release team would like to share some of its ideas
about which versions of emacs to support, then I could fill in the
rest for them. :-)
In the meantime, Mike, you're probably best off suggesting that people
use the info file in the consult locker; it's maintained reasonably
regularly by the consultants. Also a reasonable suggestion is the
info dire file in the sipb locker (/mit/sipb/lib/elisp/info/dir), but
that is updated a little less often, I suspect.
--
on a somewhat related note (to the release team), the emacs19 locker
will be updating to emacs 19.30 over IAP, after a test period. Look
for mail to software-announce. I've been using it for a month or so
now, and I think it's going to be stable enough to suggest as the
default version for all athena platforms, say, over the summer.
chad
