HELP HELPFILES John Williams, Feb 1991 This file overviews the HELP files provided with Poplog Common Lisp. CONTENTS - (Use g to access required sections) 1 Introductory 2 News, Changes, Known Bugs 3 Poplog Specific Information 4 Debugging Aids 5 Interfaces to Other Languages 6 Summary Files 7 HELP Files describing Specific Modules ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Introductory ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * CLISP An introduction to Poplog Common Lisp. * LISPVED Summarises ways in which the Ved editor is tailored for Lisp. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 News, Changes, Known Bugs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * BUGS Describes known bugs and omissions in Poplog Common Lisp. * LISPNEWS Records changes to the Lisp system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Poplog Specific Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REF * POPLOG_ONLY Documents functions, variables and constants peculiar to Poplog Common Lisp. * FEATURES Lists the symbols that Poplog puts in the *features* list. * DECLARE Describes the effect of declarations in Poplog Common Lisp. * INLINE Explains the effect of inline and notinline declarations * OPTIMIZE Describes the effects of the optimize compiler declaration. * SAVELISP Documents the function savelisp. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Debugging Aids ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * DEBUG Provides hints on debugging in Poplog Common Lisp. * BREAK Documents the Lisp Debugger. * INSPECT Explains how to use the inspect function. * MISHAP Explains the format of error messages in Poplog Common Lisp. * PROFILE Explains the Lisp interface to the Poplog profiling tool. * TRACE Describes Poplog Common Lisp's tracing facilities. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Interfaces to Other Languages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * POPLISP Documents Pop-11/Lisp mixed language programming tools. * POPTOLISP Compares the syntax of Common Lisp and Pop-11. * PROLOG Describes the Lisp interface to Poplog Prolog. * RUN-UNIX-PROGRAM (Unix only). Explains how to run Unix programs from Lisp. * EXTERNAL Describes the external load facility, for accessing functions defined in non-Poplog languages (e.g. C) in Lisp. * CLX Shows how to load the CLX module (an interface to X windows). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Summary Files ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * CONSTANTS Lists all constants built into the Lisp system. * FUNCTIONS Lists the functions built into the Lisp system. * VARIABLES Lists all variables built into the Lisp system. * HELPFILES This file. * LISPINDEX Alphabetic index of Lisp HELP files. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 HELP Files describing Specific Modules ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MODULES Documents Poplog's implementation of Common Lisp modules. * HISTORY Describes the HISTORY module. * MAGIC-WORDS Documents the MAGIC-WORDS module. * PROCESS Explains the Lisp interface to the Poplog `process' facility. * SEQUENCE-COMPILER-MACROS Explains how to improve the performance of some sequence functions. * STOREUTILS Describes the Lisp interface to Poplog storage management tools. --- C.all/lisp/help/helpfiles --- Copyright University of Sussex 1992. All rights reserved.