From: Martin Cracauer
Subject: 'manpage'-like CL-Definitions availiable ?
Date: 
Message-ID: <1992Nov17.112647.274@wavehh.hanse.de>
Does anybody know a place, where I could find the definitions of
common lisp as an easy-to-index-file (plain ascii, one file per
definition or group of definitions) or perhaps as UNIX-like manpages ?


Thanks
	Martin


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From: Eskil Brun
Subject: Re: 'manpage'-like CL-Definitions availiable ?
Date: 
Message-ID: <eskilb.722097175@fenris.dhhalden.no>
········@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:

>Does anybody know a place, where I could find the definitions of
>common lisp as an easy-to-index-file (plain ascii, one file per
>definition or group of definitions) or perhaps as UNIX-like manpages ?

Well. If you happen to have a TI Explorer Lisp machine on your
network, you can use my GNU Emacs interface, rpc-hm, to access
Explorer functions like DOCUMENTATION, in your case.

(lisp-dir-apropos "rpc") gives me:

             GNU Emacs Lisp Code Directory Apropos -- "rpc"
"~/" refers to
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/

rpc-hm (1.0)          92-07-20
     Eyvind Ness, <···········@HRP.No>
     ugle.unit.no:/pub/gnu/emacs-lisp/rpc-hm-1.0.tar.Z
     Networking library for interfacing GNU Emacs with remote Lisp
Machines

Check out the Elisp function called rld-describe-function/variable: 

E.g. (rld-describe-function 'machine-instance) gives:

Function LISP:MACHINE-INSTANCE ()

        Return a string that identifies which particular machine this
implementation is.

;;; End of documentation for MACHINE-INSTANCE provided by REMULUS.


Typically I bind this function to C-h f when working with Lisp code to
easily access doc for the functions appearing in the source code.

rpc-hm works with Symbolics as well, but unfortunately Symbolics
doesn't make the documentation available outside their own Document
Examiner, so it won't be of any help to you.


Cheers,
Eyvind.

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From: Kevin Layer
Subject: Re: 'manpage'-like CL-Definitions availiable ?
Date: 
Message-ID: <LAYER.92Dec4085724@ice.Franz.COM>
In article <····················@wavehh.hanse.de> ········@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:

   Does anybody know a place, where I could find the definitions of
   common lisp as an easy-to-index-file (plain ascii, one file per
   definition or group of definitions) or perhaps as UNIX-like manpages ?

With Allegro Common Lisp comes an on-line manual facility accessed via
GNU Emacs.  It is very similar to UNIX man pages (ie, one page per
definition).
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