-This is ../info/lispref.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.0 from
-lispref/lispref.texi.
+This is Info file ../../info/lispref.info, produced by Makeinfo version
+1.68 from the input file lispref.texi.
INFO-DIR-SECTION XEmacs Editor
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Index:: Index including concepts, functions, variables,
and other terms.
- --- The Detailed Node Listing ---
+ -- The Detailed Node Listing --
Here are other nodes that are inferiors of those already listed,
mentioned here so you can get to them in one step:
* Buffer Type:: The basic object of editing.
* Window Type:: What makes buffers visible.
-* Window Configuration Type:: Save what the screen looks like.
+* Window Configuration Type::Save what the screen looks like.
* Marker Type:: A position in a buffer.
* Process Type:: A process running on the underlying OS.
* Stream Type:: Receive or send characters.
Strings and Characters
-* String Basics:: Basic properties of strings and characters.
+* Basics: String Basics. Basic properties of strings and characters.
* Predicates for Strings:: Testing whether an object is a string or char.
* Creating Strings:: Functions to allocate new strings.
* Predicates for Characters:: Testing whether an object is a character.
* Classifying Lists:: How to distinguish various sorts of list forms.
* Function Forms:: Forms that call functions.
* Macro Forms:: Forms that call macros.
-* Special Forms:: ``Special forms'' are idiosyncratic primitives,
+* Special Forms:: "Special forms" are idiosyncratic primitives,
most of them extremely important.
* Autoloading:: Functions set up to load files
containing their real definitions.
* Events:: What input looks like when you read it.
* Reading Input:: How to read input events from the keyboard or mouse.
* Waiting:: Waiting for user input or elapsed time.
-* Quitting:: How C-g works. How to catch or defer quitting.
+* Quitting:: How `C-g' works. How to catch or defer quitting.
* Prefix Command Arguments:: How the commands to set prefix args work.
* Recursive Editing:: Entering a recursive edit,
and why you usually shouldn't.
is visited.
* Buffer Modification:: A buffer is "modified" if it needs to be saved.
* Modification Time:: Determining whether the visited file was changed
- ``behind XEmacs's back''.
+ "behind XEmacs's back".
* Read Only Buffers:: Modifying text is not allowed in a
read-only buffer.
* The Buffer List:: How to look at all the existing buffers.
* Information from Markers:: Finding the marker's buffer or character
position.
* Changing Markers:: Moving the marker to a new buffer or position.
-* The Mark:: How ``the mark'' is implemented with a marker.
-* The Region:: How to access ``the region''.
+* The Mark:: How "the mark" is implemented with a marker.
+* The Region:: How to access "the region".
Text
(under user control) in a wide variety
of contexts.
* Specifiers In-Depth:: Gory details about specifier innards.
-* Specifier Instancing:: Instancing means obtaining the ``value'' of
+* Specifier Instancing:: Instancing means obtaining the "value" of
a specifier in a particular context.
* Specifier Types:: Specifiers come in different flavors.
-* Adding Specifications:: Specifications control a specifier's ``value''
+* Adding Specifications:: Specifications control a specifier's "value"
by giving conditions under which a
particular value is valid.
* Retrieving Specifications:: Querying a specifier's specifications.