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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: 41681@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41681: 27.0.91; Remove obsolete reference to the Emacs Lisp List?
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:36:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837dwocj22.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sh437z5.fsf@bzg.fr> (message from Bastien on Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:48:46 +0200)

> From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:48:46 +0200
> 
> C-h C-e shows an info page explaining how to find extra packages.
> 
> This page contains a reference to the Emacs Lisp List:
> https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/emacs/ell.html
> 
> The list has not been updated since 2014 and many links are broken.

That command shows a section on our FAQ, so the FAQ needs to be fixed.

> See these 6 broken links among the 7 first entries:
> 
> http://www.davep.org/emacs/5x5.el
> http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/comp-e.html
> http://www.geocities.com/mkjunker/stuff.html#emacs
> http://sites.ugcs.caltech.edu/~shulman/pub/Main/Software/abc-mode.el
> http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter/acldoc.el
> 
> I simply suggest to remove this link from the Emacs manual and to add
> it to emacswiki, if needed.

I don't want to trade our documentation for the wiki, because the
latter is not under our control, and the quality of the information
there cannot be guaranteed.  Why not simply fix our FAQ to be more
up-to-date?

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-03 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-03  7:48 bug#41681: 27.0.91; Remove obsolete reference to the Emacs Lisp List? Bastien
2020-06-03 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-13  1:12   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-14 17:19     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-14 18:18       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-18 13:42         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-18 13:58           ` Stefan Kangas

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