Mercurial > emacs
changeset 26416:1384b7926bb1
Better ELisp Reference instructions.
| author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:19:11 +0000 |
| parents | bda6a3a2bf96 |
| children | 5678b244c3ac |
| files | INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Fri Nov 12 00:09:03 1999 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Fri Nov 12 12:19:11 1999 +0000 @@ -52,14 +52,26 @@ The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions, in the intlfonts/README file. -* elisp-manual-EMACSVERSION-MANVERSION.tar.gz +* elisp-manual-M.N.tar.gz + +This distribution contains the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual which +complements the Emacs Lisp Manual. It is a good idea to install the +Emacs Lisp Reference Manual after installing Emacs, to complete the +on-line documentation of Emacs in Info. + +If you have installed Texinfo, you can install the Emacs Lisp +Reference Manual this way: -This is the Emacs Lisp Reference for programmers, containing an -in-depth discussion of Emacs Lisp and Emacs internals. The -distribution contains the Texinfo source files for the Reference -Manual. The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It contains -around 900 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two -megabytes. The package contains installation instructions of its own. + cd elisp-manual-M.N + ./configure --prefix=PREFIXDIR + make install + +Otherwise, you can install it manually. Just copy the files elisp and +elisp-* from the elisp-manual-M.N directory to your site's info +directory (see the description of `infodir', below), and make sure +that file `dir' in this directory contains an entry like this: + + * Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: