XEmacs Lisp Reference Manual

Copyright © 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright © 1994, 1995 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Copyright © 1995, 1996 Ben Wing.

Version 3.3
Revised for XEmacs Versions 21.0,
April 1998.

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Cover art by Etienne Suvasa.

Short Table of Contents

• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The XEmacs Packaging System
• 3. An overview of the XEmacs Packaging System
• 4. ‘Makefile’ targets
• 5. Creating Packages:
• 6. package-info.in
• 7. ‘Makefile’
• 8. Lisp Data Types
• 9. Numbers
• 10. Strings and Characters
• 11. Lists
• 12. Sequences, Arrays, and Vectors
• 13. Symbols
• 14. Evaluation
• 15. Control Structures
• 16. Variables
• 17. Functions and Commands
• 18. Macros
• 19. Writing Customization Definitions
• 20. Loading
• 21. Byte Compilation
• 22. Debugging Lisp Programs
• 23. Reading and Printing Lisp Objects
• 24. Minibuffers
• 25. Command Loop
• 26. Keymaps
• 27. Menus
• 28. Dialog Boxes
• 29. Toolbar
• 30. Gutter
• 31. Scrollbars
• 32. Drag and Drop
• 33. Major and Minor Modes
• 34. Documentation
• 35. Files
• 36. Backups and Auto-Saving
• 37. Buffers
• 38. Windows
• 39. Frames
• 40. Consoles and Devices
• 41. Positions
• 42. Markers
• 43. Text
• 44. Searching and Matching
• 45. Syntax Tables
• 46. Abbrevs And Abbrev Expansion
• 47. Extents
• 48. Specifiers
• 49. Faces and Window-System Objects
• 50. Glyphs
• 51. Annotations
• 52. Emacs Display
• 53. Hash Tables
• 54. Range Tables
• 55. Databases
• 56. Processes
• 57. Operating System Interface
• 58. Functions Specific to the X Window System
• 59. ToolTalk Support
• 60. LDAP Support
• 61. PostgreSQL Support
• 62. Internationalization
• 63. MULE
• A. Tips and Standards
• B. Building XEmacs; Allocation of Objects
• C. Standard Errors
• D. Buffer-Local Variables
• E. Standard Keymaps
• F. Standard Hooks
• Index

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