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Revision: [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--cvs-trunk--0--patch-314 Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 Patches applied: * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 69) - Update from CVS 2005-05-16 Katsumi Yamaoka <[e-mail]> * lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el: Don't autoload mail-extract-address-components. * lisp/gnus/gnus.el: Use eval-and-compile to autoload message-y-or-n-p. * lisp/gnus/nndb.el: Don't declare the nndb back end two or more times; don't autoload news-reply-mode, news-setup, cancel-timer and telnet. * lisp/gnus/nntp.el: Autoload format-spec instead of format; use eval-and-compile to evaluate autoload forms. * lisp/gnus/spam-report.el (spam-report-process-queue): Use gnus-point-at-eol.

README for Edition 2.8 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 info'.  To install the Info files, run
`make install'.