`M-x lw:manual`

Look up LispWorks^® Documentation and display it using Emacs' browse-url facility.

.emacs

First put the .el files somewhere in your load-path and customize your browse-url. Also install the Lispworks^® 7.1 Documentation locally. Then

	(require 'lw-manual-data-7-1-1-0)
	(require 'lw-manual)
	(setq lw:manual-base-url
		"file:///usr/local/lib64/LispWorksPersonal/lib/7-1-0-0/manual/online/")
	(lw:set-lw-manual-symbols +lw-manual-data-7-1-0-0+)

files

`lw-manual.el`

derived from original 1997 hyperspec.el by way of Franz Inc.'s fi-manual.el.

Use M-x lw:manual <TAB> to lookup the documentation for the symbol-at-point. Use the C-u prefix argument to always prompt for a symbol.

Use lw:set-lw-manual-symbols directly to set or change the documentation set (after loading a new manual-data table)

Note The code was cleaned up and tested on Emacs 28. Support for earlier Emacs versions may have been inadvertently dropped and may need to be fixed.

`lw-manual-data-7-1-1-0.el`

contains the manual-data table for the LispWorks ^® Documentation that shipped with version 7.1.2.

The tar filelwdoc71-x86-linux.tar.gz was downloaded from http://www.lispworks.com/download. Note that this unpacks to a sub-directory -

  ./lib/7-1-0-0/manual/online/

Point the variable lw:manual-base-url to whereever the docs were unpacked locally.

  (setq lw:manual-base-url
	  "file:///usr/local/lib64/LispWorksPersonal/lib/7-1-0-0/manual/online/")

Or to lookup the corresponding version of the documentation over HTTP directly on www.lispworks.com

  (setq lw:manual-base-url "http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/")

Note The table for lw71 contains 5321 entries stored in an Emacs obarray.

`dump-lw-manual.lisp`

contains code to generate the elisp manual-data from the LispWorks ^® documentation. It uses the external libraries lQuery and Plump to process HTML.

It was used to generate lw-manual-data-7-1-1-0.el -

  (in-package "MAKE-LW-MANUAL")
  (setq $lw-manual-location "/usr/local/LispWorks64/lib/7-1-0-0/manual/online/")
  (dump-manual-data :defaults "/tmp/")

to create an elisp file /tmp/lw-manual-data-7-1-0-0.el. Note this file defines an elisp constant variable +lw-manual-data-7-1-1-0+ which contains the manual-data table.

It is likely that this code can be used to generate manual-data tables for other LispWorks versions (at least starting from 6.1)

Note Earlier versions of dump-lw-manual used html-parse and manipulated the sexp DOM. lQuery seems to be cleaner to express the extraction. Upstream lQuery may need to be fixed to make it work with LispWorks and the parser may run out of memory on the LispWorks Personal Edition.

Update [22082 lwdoc80]

emacs config

    (require 'lw-manual)
    (require 'lw-manual-data-8-0-0-0)
    (lw:set-lw-manual-symbols +lw-manual-data-8-0-0-0+)
    nil)
;;  (setq lw:manual-base-url "http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw80/")
    (setq lw:manual-base-url "file:///opt/lw801/lib/8-0-0-0/manual/html-l/")

dump table

  (require 'plump)
  (require 'lquery)
  (load "dump-lw-manual-data.lisp")
  (in-package "MAKE-LW-MANUAL")
  (setq $lw-manual-location "/opt/lw801/lib/8-0-0-0/manual/html-l/")
  (dump-manual-data :defaults "/tmp/")

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