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(word-help-mode-alist, reset-word-help) (word-help-switch-help-file): Added support for completion. (word-help-complete, word-help-complete-list) (word-help-complete-index, word-help-extract-matches) (word-help-make-complete): New functions/variables for completion. (word-help-mode-alist): Enhanced search regexps. (word-help-index-mapper): Defaults now to extracting the first word. (word-help-mode-alist, word-help-index-mapper) (word-help-main-index, word-help-main-obarray) (reset-word-help, set-help-file, word-help-process-indexes) (word-help-goto-index-node): Doc fixes. (word-help-goto-index-node): Requires passing the keyword. Uses this in the a new and enhanced magic indexing routine. (set-help-file, word-help): Handle `completion-ignore-case' better. (word-help-extract-index): `case-fold-search' better handled. (word-help): Magic guessing of relevant help file put in new function word-help-find-help-file. (word-help-guess-all): New subroutine. (word-help-guess): Use word-help-guess-all. May optionally copy only upto the cursor, instead of the entire keyword.

README for Edition 2.4 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.  Also, it contains makeinfo.c.

* 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
700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two
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:

% make index.texi
% make elisp.dvi

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

** INFO: A copy of makeinfo.c that will format this manual for Info is
included in this distribution.  This program is written in C and can
be used separately from Emacs.  `makeinfo' produces much better error
messages than the old `texinfo-format-buffer'.  You can run `makeinfo'
it on the `elisp.texi' file.