The Metaspec ELPA Archive

This directory is an ELPA package archive: a location Emacs' own package manager can install from. It serves a single package, metaspec, which is the Common Lisp Metaspec — the Common Lisp Standard rev 15.17R (X3J13/94-101R) — as a GNU Info manual, together with the glue that hooks it into Emacs' documentation commands. Nothing here needs to be downloaded by hand.

Installing

Add this archive to package-archives, then run M-x package-refresh-contents and M-x package-install RET metaspec:

(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("metaspec" . "https://metaspec.dev/elpa/"))

The URL must be spelled with https: package.el treats an archive location that is not an HTTP URL as a directory on the local disk.

Using it

Installing the package enables the following in lisp-mode:

• C-h i lists the manual as Metaspec.
• C-h S on a symbol in a Lisp buffer opens that symbol's dictionary entry.
• C-M-i completes what you have typed against the symbol index.

The manual is registered with Info by the package itself, so there is no install-info step and nothing to add to your init file.

Upgrading

The package version is the version of the Metaspec it was built from, which changes with every published change of the Metaspec. M-x list-packages offers an upgrade whenever this archive has a newer one.

What the package contains

• metaspec.el — the library that points info-lookup-symbol at the manual's symbol index.
• metaspec.info.gz — the whole standard as one compressed Info manual.
• dir — the Info directory entry that makes the manual appear in C-h i.

Reading it without installing anything

Download metaspec.info and open it with C-u C-h i, or read the same text as hyperlinked HTML. The About page describes the other renditions and how the Metaspec is made.