UCI LISP MANUAL
by
Robert J. Bobrow
Richard R. Burton
Jeffrey M. Jacobs
Daryle Lewis
Table of Contents
Introduction 0. 0
Debugging Facilities 1. 1
Introduction 1. 1
Temporarily Interrupting a Computation 1. 5
BREAK1 - The Function that Supervises all
Breaks 1. 6
What You Can Do In a Break 1. 8
Break Commands 1. 8
Leaving a break with a value
(OK,GO,EVAL,FROM?) 1. 8
Correction of UNBOUND ATOM and
UNDEFINED FUNCTION errors (>, USE) 1. 9
Aborting to Higher Breaks or the Top
Level (^, ^^) 1.10
Examining and Modifying the Context of
a Break 1.11
Searching for a Context on the Stack 1.11
Editing a Form on the Context Stack 1.12
Evaluating a Form in a Higher Context 1.12
Backtrace Commands
Printing the Functions, Forms and Variable
Bindings on the Context Stack 1.15
Breakmacros
User Defined Break Commands 1.17
How to Use the Break Package 1.18
Setting a Break to Investigate a Function 1.18
Tracing the Execution of Functions 1.19
Setting a Break INSIDE a Function 1.19
Removing Breaks and Traces 1.21
Using BREAK0 Directly to Obtain
Special Effects from the
Break Package 1.23
Error Package - Getting Automatic Breaks
When Errors Occur 1.24
Summary of Break Commands 1.25
The LISP Editor 2. 1
Introduction 2. 2
Commands for the New User 2.10
Attention Changing Commands 2.15
Local Attention Changing Commands 2.16
Commands That Search 2.22
Search Algorithm 2.24
Search Commands 2.26
Location Specification 2.30
Commands That Save and Restore the
Edit Chain 2.36
Commands That Modify Structure 2.38
Implementation of Structure
Modification Commands 2.39
The A, B, : Commands 2.41
Form Oriented Editing and
the Role of UP 2.45
Extract and Embed 2.46
The MOVE Command 2.50
Commands That "Move Parentheses" 2.54
TO and THRU 2.57
Commands That Print 2.62
Commands That Evaluate 2.63
Commands That Test 2.66
Macros 2.68
Miscellaneous Commands 2.71
Editdefault 2.78
Editor Functions 2.80
Extended Interpretation of LISP Forms 3. 1
Evaluation of Sequences of Forms
Extended LAMBDA Expressions 3. 1
The Functions PROG1 and PROGN 3. 2
Conditional Evaluation of Forms - SELECTQ 3. 3
Changes to the Handling of Errors 3. 4
Miscellania - APPLY#, NILL 3. 5
Extensions to the Standard Input/Output Functions 4. 1
Project-Programmer Numbers for Disk I/O 4. 1
Saving Function Definitions, etc. on Disk Files 4. 1
Reading Files Back In 4. 1. 1
Reading Directories 4. 1. 2
File Manipulation 4. 1. 4
Queuing Files 4. 1. 7
Recovery from QMANGR Errors 4. 1. 10
Printing Circular or Deeply Nested Lists 4. 2
Spacing Control - TAB 4. 2
"Pretty Printing" Function Definitions and
S-Expressions 4. 3
Reading Whole Lines 4. 4
Teletype and Prompt Character Control Functions 4. 5
Read Macros - Extending the LISP READ Routine 4. 6
Functions for Defining Read Macros 4. 6
Using Read Macros 4. 7
Modifying the READ Control Table 4. 8
Reading without Interning 4. 9
New Functions on S-Expressions 5. 1
S-Expression Building Functions 5. 1
S-Expression Transforming Functions 5. 3
S-Expression Modifying Functions 5. 4
Mapping Functions with Several Arguments 5. 5
Mapping Functions which use NCONC 5. 6
S-Expression Searching and Substitution Functions 5. 7
Efficiently Working with Atoms as Character Strings 5. 9
New Predicates 6. 1
Data Type Predicates 6. 1
Alphabetic Ordering Predicate 6. 2
Predicates That Return Useful Non-NIL Values 6. 3
Other Predicates 6. 4
New Numeric Functions 7. 1
Minimum and Maximum 7. 1
FORTRAN Functions in LISP 7. 2
Functions for the System Builder 8. 1
Loading Compiled Code into the High Segment 8. 1
The Compiler and LAP 8. 2
Special Variables 8. 2
Removing Excess Entry Points 8. 2
Miscellaneous Useful Functions 8. 3
Initial System Generation 8. 4
The LISP Evaluation Context Stack 9. 1
The Contents of the Context Stack 9. 1
Examining the Context Stack 9. 2
Controlling Evaluation Context 9. 4
Storage Allocation 10. 1
Contiguous Blocks of Storage 11. 1
Index INDEX. 1