Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347: * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather than special forms. (Bug#13853)

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

The problem I saw with these changes, and the reason I did not fix it at
the time it was reported, is that previously "special form" was defined
(in a simple way using only a couple of sentences) before it was used to
refer to any particular function. Now the term "macro" is used well
before it is defined. So the manual no longer makes sense when read in
order, which matters for an introduction IMO. It needs more work that
just replacing "special form" by "macro" in a few places.

Also, the menu is now inconsistent:

* defun::                        The @code{defun} special form.

etc

> -(Another special form, @code{defcustom}, is designed for variables
> -that people customize.  It has more features than @code{defvar}.
> -(@xref{defcustom, , Setting Variables with @code{defcustom}}.)

Why was this removed? It could have been simply changed to "Another
function,... ". The reference to defcustom is the important thing, not
the details of whether it is a special form or macro.


PS Please keep commit log lines to ~ 80 chars in length.
The first line should be a summary that can stand alone.
Eg "Minor emacs-lisp-intro updates related to special forms"