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From: liberte@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Several Questions
Message-ID: <165400032@uiucdcsb>
Date: 6 Feb 88 21:09:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!liberte    Feb  6 15:09:00 1988


> /* Written  2:36 pm  Feb  4, 1988 by rich@oxtrap.UUCP in uiucdcsb:comp.emacs */
> In article <8801261730.AA26717@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA> rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> 
> >(6) Is the elisp manual ever coming out? Can I get what's already
> >    available by subscribing to the gnu-manual list (whatever it's
> >    called or wherever it's located)? Does it still exist?
> 
> It still exists but there isn't much traffic.  Seems everyone wants to
> edit, no one wants to write. (myself included).

Actually, several people started to write last summer, but then Bil Lewis
came forward with a large amount of material on almost everything.   This
is currently being reworked by Tom Scott at FSF.  Then, I expect several
more months of review and revision by the gnu-manual list.  

If you are desparate for documentation, you can still grab the refman
package by anonymous ftp on a.cs.uiuc.edu in pub/gnuemacs/doc/refman*.
This primarily pulls out the doc strings and organizes them by chapters.

Dan LaLiberte
liberte@a.cs.uiuc.edu
uiucdcs!liberte