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Fix bootstrapping problems. Use the system locale to specify Emacs locale defaults. * international/mule-cmds.el (global-map): Do not use backquote, because that makes a bootstrapping problem if you need to recompile all Lisp files using interpreted code. * international/mule.el (charset-id, charset-bytes, charset-dimension, charset-chars, charset-width, charset-direction, charset-iso-final-char, charset-iso-graphic-plane, charset-reverse-charset, charset-short-name, charset-long-name, charset-description, charset-plist): Likewise. * subr.el (save-match-data): Likewise. * international/mule-cmds.el (set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system): New function, containing code migrated out of set-language-environment. (set-language-environment, set-locale-environment): Use it. (locale-translation-file-name): Moved here from startup.el. (locale-language-names, locale-preferred-coding-systems): New vars. (locale-name-match, set-locale-environment): New functions. * language/japan-util.el (setup-japanese-environment-internal): Prefer japanese-iso-8bit if the system-type is usg-unix-v. * startup.el (iso-8859-n-locale-regexp): Remove. (locale-translation-file-name): Move to mule-cmds.el. (command-line): Move locale-stuff into set-locale-environment.

README for Edition 2.5 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
900 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:

% ./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'.