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Remove useless leading * in defcustom docstrings. (save-completions-file-name): Use ~/.emacs.d if available. (completion-standard-syntax-table): Rename from cmpl-standard-syntax-table and fold initialization into declaration, thus removing cmpl-make-standard-completion-syntax-table. (completion-lisp-syntax-table, completion-c-syntax-table) (completion-fortran-syntax-table, completion-c-def-syntax-table): Idem. (cmpl-saved-syntax, cmpl-saved-point): Remove. (symbol-under-point, symbol-before-point) (symbol-under-or-before-point, symbol-before-point-for-complete) (add-completions-from-c-buffer): Use with-syntax-table. (make-completion): Don't return a list of completion entries. Update callers. (cmpl-prefix-entry-head, cmpl-prefix-entry-tail): Use defalias. (completion-initialize): Rename from initialize-completions. (completion-find-file-hook): Rename from cmpl-find-file-hook. (kill-emacs-save-completions): Collect stats here. (save-completions-to-file, load-completions-from-file): Use with-current-buffer. (completion-def-wrapper): Rename from def-completion-wrapper. Make it into a function. Move all calls to toplevel. (completion-lisp-mode-hook): New fun. (completion-c-mode-hook, completion-setup-fortran-mode): Set the syntax-table here. Use local-set-key. (completion-saved-bindings): New var. (dynamic-completion-mode): Make it into a proper minor mode. (load-completions-from-file): Remove unused var `num-uses'.

README for Edition 2.9 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.

* This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference
Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex,
which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of
texinfo.tex.

* Report Lisp Manual bugs to [e-mail].  We don't read
these bug reports until it's time for a new edition.  To report other
Emacs bugs, use [e-mail].  To ask questions, use the
newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.

* The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large.  It totals around
1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over
2.5 megabytes.

* You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
using TeX.

* You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation.
For info, send mail to [e-mail] or phone [phone].  Buying a
manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU
development work.

** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:

** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this
manual is included in this distribution.

The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called
`elisp.texi'.  It contains @include commands to include all the
chapters that make up the manual.  In addition, `elisp.texi' has
the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the
@titlespec command.

To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following
commands in the shell:

% ./configure
% make index.texi
% make elisp.dvi

*** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
with `make-permuted-index'.

** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run
`./configure' and `make info'.  To install the Info files, run
`make install'.