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Alastair Burt <[e-mail]> sent in a patch on 17.Mar.98 which removes duplicates from the category list and saves the buffer after category addition. Thanks. Uwe Brauer <[e-mail]> sent in a request on 3.Apr.98 to implement a "move-between-categories" function. I haven't done that yet. Thanks. "Edward S. Hirgelt" <[e-mail]> fixed a problem with multi-line editing 29.Oct.98. Thanks. tom <[e-mail]> sent in a replacement for the outmoded time-format that I had been using on 13.Nov.98. Thanks. Jerome Thebert <[e-mail]> sent in a binding to show/hide continuation lines using the space bar on 11.Jan.99. Instead of leaving it as a hook, I integrated it. Thanks. Sorry again to everybody. I sat on your patches for a year.

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:

% 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
`make elisp'.  To install the Info files, run `make install'.