* Lisp History:: Emacs Lisp is descended from Maclisp.
* Conventions:: How the manual is formatted.
* Version Info:: Which Emacs version is running?
-* Acknowledgements:: The authors, editors, and sponsors of this manual.
+* Acknowledgments:: The authors, editors, and sponsors of this manual.
Conventions
* Case Changes:: Case conversion of parts of the buffer.
* Text Properties:: Assigning Lisp property lists to text characters.
* Substitution:: Replacing a given character wherever it appears.
-* Transposition:: Swapping two portions of a buffer.
* Registers:: How registers are implemented. Accessing
the text or position stored in a register.
+* Transposition:: Swapping two portions of a buffer.
* Base 64:: Conversion to or from base 64 encoding.
* Checksum/Hash:: Computing cryptographic hashes.
* Parsing HTML/XML:: Parsing HTML and XML.
* Motion and Syntax:: Moving over characters with certain syntaxes.
* Parsing Expressions:: Parsing balanced expressions
using the syntax table.
-* Standard Syntax Tables:: Syntax tables used by various major modes.
* Syntax Table Internals:: How syntax table information is stored.
* Categories:: Another way of classifying character syntax.