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Re: manual for emacs

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From: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1989 15:34
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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.
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