Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: manual for emacs Message-ID: <30897@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Jan 89 15:34:50 GMT References: <34259@bbn.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Bob Sutterfield Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 18 In article <34259@bbn.COM> jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) writes: >Where is there an ftpable manual for emacs written in TeX or >LaTeX? If you're trying to learn to use Emacs, the entire manual is there at your fingertips in a browsable form in Info-mode. If it's GNU Emacs, say "c-h i". It was originally written in TeX using a special macro package (texinfo) that would allow the same source to be formatted either for the Info browser or for printing, and the source should be on your system somewhere - ask whoever installed it for you. I don't know about how to get to the documentation in any other Emacs versions. Also in GNU Emacs, say "c-h t" to invoke a self-paced tutorial. If you're trying to learn to program GNU Emacs, look at the GNU Emacs Lisp Manual in a.cs.uiuc.edu:pub/gnuemacs/*, also written using TeX. Presumably, other versions of Emacs have programmer's manuals as well.