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(c-mode-base-map, c++-mode-map): Move `/' as an electric character from c++-mode-map to c-mode-base-map for all languages. (c-common-init): Set comment-multi-line and comment-line-break-function here for all modes. Make comment-line-break-function buffer local iff it's boundp. (c-C-comment-start-regexp): Obsolete. (c-comment-start-regexp): Initialize from c-C++-comment-start-regexp. (c-populate-syntax-table, c-setup-dual-comments): Merge both functions into c-populate-syntax-table. With the new 9X draft C standard, both line and block oriented comments are supported in all modes, so always set up the syntax tables to support both comment styles. (c-enable-//-in-c-mode): Obsolete. (c++-mode-syntax-table, java-mode-syntax-table) (objc-mode-syntax-table, idl-mode-syntax-table): Added autoload cookies. c-mode-syntax-table already has one. Use the new syntax table initialization idioms.

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.