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From: fox@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk (Paul Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: emacs lisp
Message-ID: <348@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk>
Date: 12 May 88 11:32:23 GMT
Organization: Reuters Ltd, London, England
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Does anyone out there know of any documentation describing the syntax/features/
mis-features of the Emacs Lisp language (specifically GNUEmacs). We've
got books on Lisp and Common-Lisp, but I want to know to what extent
the the Emacs Lisp functions are primitives or just other
lisp functions. 

I am currently working on a rewrite of BRIEF, which runs under Unix,
and want to be able to load the standard .el files. The BRIEF macro
language is lisp-ish, but the syntax is similar to Lisp, so the
parser shouldn't present a problem. 

I prefer not to look at the Emacs code, since it is far too complicated,
and I do not want to plaguarise such a nice program. Imitation
is the sincerest form of flattery :-)).


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