annotate lispref/back.texi @ 67988:7882fc7df359

* mh-alias.el (mh-alias-grab-from-field): Remove leading * from docstring. Does this mean something in a defun? * mh-customize.el (bw-new-face-to-old, bw-old-face-to-new): Checkdoc fix. * mh-e.el (mh-inc-folder): Rename maildrop-name argument to file so it reads better in docstring and manual. Sync docstring with manual. * mh-init.el (mh-defface-compat): Remove trailing space (checkdoc). * mh-alias.el (mh-alias-apropos): Sync docstring with manual. * mh-comp.el (mh-redistribute, mh-to-field, mh-to-fcc) (mh-insert-auto-fields, mh-send-letter, mh-yank-cur-msg) (mh-fully-kill-draft, mh-open-line, mh-letter-complete) (mh-letter-complete-or-space, mh-letter-confirm-address) (mh-letter-next-header-field-or-indent) (mh-letter-previous-header-field): Ditto. * mh-customize.el (mh-alias-completion-ignore-case-flag) (mh-default-folder-for-message-function, mh-mml-method-default) (mh-signature-file-name, mh-yank-behavior, mh-show-hook) (mh-show-mode-hook) Ditto. * mh-e.el (mh-refile-or-write-again, mh-toggle-showing): Ditto. * mh-funcs.el (mh-pipe-msg, mh-sort-folder, mh-undo-folder) (mh-store-msg, mh-store-buffer): Ditto * mh-index.el (mh-index-search, mh-index-do-search) (mh-index-next-folder, mh-index-sequenced-messages): Ditto. * mh-junk.el (mh-spamassassin-blacklist): Ditto. * mh-mime.el (mh-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar) (mh-mh-compose-external-type, mh-mh-to-mime, mh-mh-to-mime-undo) (mh-mml-secure-message-sign, mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt) (mh-mml-secure-message-signencrypt): Ditto * mh-pick.el (mh-search-folder): Ditto. * mh-seq.el (mh-widen): Ditto. * mh-utils.el (mh-show, mh-modify): Ditto.
author Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
date Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:13:43 +0000
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4 @settitle GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
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8 @center @titlefont {GNU Emacs Lisp}
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12 Most of the GNU Emacs text editor is written in the programming
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13 language called Emacs Lisp. You can write new code in Emacs Lisp and
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14 install it as an extension to the editor. However, Emacs Lisp is more
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15 than a mere ``extension language''; it is a full computer programming
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16 language in its own right. You can use it as you would any other
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17 programming language.
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19 Because Emacs Lisp is designed for use in an editor, it has special
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20 features for scanning and parsing text as well as features for handling
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21 files, buffers, displays, subprocesses, and so on. Emacs Lisp is
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22 closely integrated with the editing facilities; thus, editing commands
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23 are functions that can also conveniently be called from Lisp programs,
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24 and parameters for customization are ordinary Lisp variables.
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26 This manual describes Emacs Lisp. Generally speaking, the earlier
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27 chapters describe features of Emacs Lisp that have counterparts in
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28 many programming languages, and later chapters describe features that
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29 are peculiar to Emacs Lisp or relate specifically to editing.
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30 @end quotation
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37 @end ignore