From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50447: [PATCH] Remove very old NEWS from the FAQ Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:22:23 +1200 Message-ID: <57628b19f1962c8847fd744ae20c8368@webmail.orcon.net.nz> References: <83y288q5mw.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27470"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Orcon Webmail Cc: 50447@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 15:54:45 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNbYj-00073D-0V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 15:54:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52074 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNbYh-00008E-Th for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNb43-0001UP-C5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNb42-0006dc-ME for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNb42-00038L-Gx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:23:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Phil Sainty Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50447 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 50447-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50447.163102095411995 (code B ref 50447); Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50447) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Sep 2021 13:22:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55617 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNb3a-00037P-H6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-2.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.43]:34325) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNb3Z-00037H-Hi for 50447@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=58286 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-2.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNb3P-00040n-Bu; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:22:23 +1200 Original-Received: from ip-116-251-162-85.kinect.net.nz ([116.251.162.85]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:22:23 +1200 In-Reply-To: X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:213688 Archived-At: On 2021-09-07 18:42, Stefan Kangas wrote: > The intended audience of the FAQ is end-users, not core developers > going spelunking. It is not useful information for that audience. I think they're (a) interesting, and (b) not causing any problems. Reading the NEWS for a major release takes quite a long time, so I think it's nice that there's also a small "selected highlights" for historical releases. As a user, I think it's interesting to learn when Emacs acquired certain features. Moreover, the node which gets you to them is tiny -- this small list of links surely isn't taking up any undesirable space, and no one who isn't interested in the history is going to be following those links; so to me they seem entirely harmless (for all users), and useful (for some users). On that basis, I wouldn't remove them. -Phil