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Removed the various "echo." lines from lisp\makefile.w32-in and nt\makefile.w32-in. They caused mingw32-make.exe bootstrap to fail with the following error if cmd.exe was being used as the shell: "process_begin: CreateProcess((null), echo., ...) failed." I replaced the "@echo." lines in nt\makefile.w32-in with "@echo ." This writes a . to the screen but that is far more desirable than make bootstrap failing. I replaced the "echo. ..." line in lisp\makefile.w32-in with "echo ;;; ...". This writes an extra comment line to loaddefs.el. Again this is far more desirable than make bootstrap failing. NOTE: I am using cmd.exe as my shell when building Emacs with MinGW instead of the sh.exe that comes with msys because when I use sh.exe as my shell, loaddefs.el does not get properly generated and I get various auto load errors.

\input /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex  @c -*-texinfo-*-
@c %**start of header
@setfilename back-cover
@settitle GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
@c %**end of header
.
@sp 7
@center @titlefont {GNU Emacs Lisp}
@sp 1

@quotation
  Most of the GNU Emacs text editor is written in the programming
language called Emacs Lisp.  You can write new code in Emacs Lisp and
install it as an extension to the editor.  However, Emacs Lisp is more
than a mere ``extension language''; it is a full computer programming
language in its own right.  You can use it as you would any other
programming language.

  Because Emacs Lisp is designed for use in an editor, it has special
features for scanning and parsing text as well as features for handling
files, buffers, displays, subprocesses, and so on.  Emacs Lisp is
closely integrated with the editing facilities; thus, editing commands
are functions that can also conveniently be called from Lisp programs,
and parameters for customization are ordinary Lisp variables.

  This manual describes Emacs Lisp.  Generally speaking, the earlier
chapters describe features of Emacs Lisp that have counterparts in
many programming languages, and later chapters describe features that
are peculiar to Emacs Lisp or relate specifically to editing.
@end quotation

@hfil
@bye

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