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(archive-file-name-coding-system): New variable. Make it permanent-local. (byte-after, bref, insert-unibyte): New function. Change most of char-after, aref, insert to them respectively. (archive-mode): Set archive-file-name-coding-system. (archive-summarize): Don't change the buffer's multibyteness. (archive-extract): Inherit archive-file-name-coding-system from archive-superior-buffer. Bind coding-system-for-write to archive-file-name-coding-system. (archive-*-write-file-member): Encode ENAME by archive-file-name-coding-system. Bind coding-system-for-write to no-conversion. (archive-rename-entry): Encode the filename by archive-file-name-coding-system. (archive-mode-revert): Don't change the buffer's multibyteness. (archive-arc-summarize, archive-lzh-summarize, archive-zoo-summarize): Don't change the buffer's multibyteness. Decode filenames by archive-file-name-coding-system. (archive-arc-rename-entry, archive-zip-chmod-entry): Don't change the buffer's multibyteness.

README for Edition 2.6 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
980 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost
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 elisp'.  To install the Info files, run
`make install'.