sbcl.sbcl/doc
Juho Snellman ecebde418a Fix release-related things
contrib changes need to be reflected in binary-distribution.sh
and documentation building too.
2013-10-17 04:56:46 +02:00
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internals Optimize special variable binding on sb-thread. 2013-09-19 23:30:09 +04:00
internals-notes 1.0.36.36: Update release checklist 2010-03-21 06:32:04 +00:00
manual Fix release-related things 2013-10-17 04:56:46 +02:00
.cvsignore 0.8.6.2: 2003-11-26 15:16:06 +00:00
clean.sh Make clean.sh clean up doc/internals, too. 2013-06-10 12:37:22 +02:00
entities.inc 0.8.6.1: 2003-11-26 02:11:09 +00:00
FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS Initial revision 2000-09-18 01:26:16 +00:00
GIT-FOR-SBCL-HACKERS.txt 1.0.20.29: small FIND fix & win32 build fix 2008-09-24 14:55:13 +00:00
GIT-WORKFLOW.md A git-only SBCL workflow 2011-06-06 09:48:08 +03:00
make-doc.sh 1.0.42.51: disable split html manual building 2010-09-21 15:29:10 +00:00
PACKAGING-SBCL.txt A git-only SBCL workflow 2011-06-06 09:48:08 +03:00
README 1.0.13.22: text tweaks 2008-01-10 15:54:04 +00:00
sbcl-asdf-install.1 0.9.3.23: 2005-08-03 14:24:00 +00:00
sbcl.1 Typo and other small fixes in the manuals and the man page 2012-10-13 21:11:43 +02:00

SBCL is -- ahem! -- imperfectly documented. What can we say? Help with
documentation might not be refused.:-)

There is a Unix man page, sbcl.1.

There is a user manual in texinfo format, in doc/manual/. (In
binary distributions, the compiled-into-HTML translations are also
included.) 

Much of the documentation for supported extensions is in their Lisp
doc strings. For example, to find out how to use the SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
function in the SB-EXT package, you can execute
  (documentation 'sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die 'function)
or
  (describe 'sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die)
in SBCL.

The user manual is incomplete, and some of its chapters are just notes
that "this is similar to chapter such-and-such of the CMU CL user
manual". The old CMU CL documentation can still be useful both for
missing chapters of the user manual and for documentation of the
internals of the system. It can be downloaded from
<ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.