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(simula-tab-always-indent, simula-indent-level) (simula-substatement-offset, simula-continued-statement-offset) (simula-label-offset, simula-if-indent, simula-inspect-indent) (simula-electric-indent, simula-abbrev-keyword, simula-abbrev-stdproc): Added default constants. (simula-emacs-features): new constant to hold information on which flavor if emacs is running (from cc-mode.el). (simula-mode-menu): Menu definition for Lucid Emacs (simula-mode-map): Bound new command simula-indent-exp to C-M-q and added lots of commands to [menu-bar]. (simula-popup-menu): New function for Lucid menus. (simula-keep-region-active): New function for Lucid menus. (simula-indent-exp): New command that indents a whole expression. (simula-indent-line): New strategies for finding the right amount to indent. (simula-skip-comment-backward): Added optional parameter stop-at-end to stop at the first END statement. (simula-expand-stdproc): Added abbrev expansion to verbatim copy of abbrev table, same for function simula-expand-keyword. (simula-search-backward): Added Doc string, and lots of error checking. (simula-search-forward): Added Doc string, and lots of error checking. Added hilit19 config code. (simula-version): New variable and function to report value. (simula-submit-bug-report): New function to submit bug report.

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.