@settitle GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
@c %**end of header
+@c Versino of the manual.
+@set VERSION 2.8
+
@dircategory Editors
@direntry
* Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
@c @syncodeindex tp fn
@ifnottex
-This Info file contains edition 2.6 of the GNU Emacs Lisp
+This Info file contains edition @value{VERSION} of the GNU Emacs Lisp
Reference Manual, corresponding to Emacs version 21.1.
@c Please REMEMBER to update edition number in *four* places in this file
@c and also in *one* place in intro.texi
@subtitle For Emacs Version 21
@c The edition number appears in several places in this file
@c and also in the file intro.texi.
-@subtitle Revision 2.6, May 2000
+@subtitle Revision @value{VERSION}, May 2000
@author by Bil Lewis, Dan LaLiberte, Richard Stallman
@author and the GNU Manual Group
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@sp 2
-Edition 2.6 @*
+Edition @value{VERSION} @*
Revised for Emacs Version 21.1,@*
May 2000.@*
@sp 2
@node Top, Introduction, (dir), (dir)
@ifnottex
-This Info file contains edition 2.6 of the GNU Emacs Lisp
+This Info file contains edition @value{VERSION} of the GNU Emacs Lisp
Reference Manual, corresponding to GNU Emacs version 21.1.
@end ifnottex
* Abbrevs:: How Abbrev mode works, and its data structures.
* Processes:: Running and communicating with subprocesses.
-* System Interface:: Getting the user id, system type, environment
- variables, and other such things.
* Display:: Features for controlling the screen display.
* Calendar:: Customizing the calendar and diary.
+* System Interface:: Getting the user id, system type, environment
+ variables, and other such things.
Appendices
* Antinews:: Info for users downgrading to Emacs 20.
-* GNU Free Documentation Licence:: The license for this documentation
+* GNU Free Documentation License:: The license for this documentation
* GPL:: Conditions for copying and changing GNU Emacs.
* Tips:: Advice and coding conventions for Emacs Lisp.
* GNU Emacs Internals:: Building and dumping Emacs;
* Inheritance and Keymaps:: How one keymap can inherit the bindings
of another keymap.
* Prefix Keys:: Defining a key with a keymap as its definition.
-* Menu Keymaps:: A keymap can define a menu for X windows
+* Menu Keymaps:: A keymap can define a menu for X
or for use from the terminal.
* Active Keymaps:: Each buffer has a local keymap
to override the standard (global) bindings.
them back.
* Lazy Properties:: Computing text properties in a lazy fashion
only when text is examined.
+* Clickable Text:: Using text properties to make regions of text
+ do something when you click on them.
+* Fields:: The @code{field} property defines
+ fields within the buffer.
* Not Intervals:: Why text properties do not use
Lisp-visible text intervals.