[4881] in Athena Bugs
Emacs -- Where is the Emacs-Lisp docmentation????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon May 7 15:16:33 1990
Date: Mon, 7 May 90 15:16:21 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[4879]
From: mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 7 May 90 14:31:52 -0400
Is the Emacs-Lisp documentation distributed with the standard distribution
of Emacs? If so, what's the name of the directory or file?
I'm on MIT Project Athena, and I can't find the Emacs-Lisp documentation.
Thanks for your help, -Mike Parker
PS: I am told by RLK@Athena that the Emacs-Lisp Manual is about 1000 pages
printed; for this reason, it may not have been copied or included
in the standard distribution.
First, to answer your question:
No, the full emacs-lisp manual is not distributed with the standard
emacs distribution, for several reasons, including:
1. As you pointed out, it is very large.
2. Many emacs users will get along quite happily with the
documentation and emacs-lisp code provided with the emacs
distribution, and never need the emacs-lisp manual.
3. The emacs-lisp manual was not in a mostly completed form until
relatively recently.
4. The emacs-lisp manual changes quite often.
I do not know where the emacs-lisp manual is archived, and I could not
find it on prep.ai.mit.edu with the rest of the gnu archives. I would
suggest that you either ask where you might be able to find it in OLC,
or direct a question to the newsgroup gnu.emacs.lisp.manual on the
Usenet.
Note that the consulting office (11-115) has a hard copy of the
emacs lisp manual if you wish to look at it. Also, the gnu locker
info tree has the elisp manual on-line. If you attach the gnu locker
and run emacs on Athena, you can type "C-h i" and then
"g(/mit/gnu/info/elisp)Top<RETURN>" to get to it.
A final note:
Neither bug-gnu-emacs nor bugs is the correct place to which to
address a question such as this.
You will note that both of those addresses have the word "bug" in
their names. That means that those addresses are meant to be used for
reporting bugs. Not for asking questions.
I don't mind so much what you send to bug-gnu-emacs at prep; they
can take care of themselves. I do, however, mind what you send to
bugs, because I (or one of my coworkers) have to deal with it. In the
future, please report bugs to bugs. If you're not reporting a bug, or
if you're not sure if something is a bug, please check with the
Project Athena consulting staff (via olc, or by calling them at
x3-4435, or by stopping by 11-115) before sending mail to bugs.
I hope this helps.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
