Robert J. Chassel reference in Intro to Emacs Lisp

[Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>]

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It's been almost 2 years since Chassel passed away and the "About the author" in the Introduction to Emacs Lisp reads as if he were still alive.

I've changed the tense of the paragraph and added 1 line to mention that he passed away and a link to the FSF's "Goodbye to Bob Chassell".

Let me know if that's useful and if I can improve the patch.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
index 519decb1d0..00f220c3c1 100644
--- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
@@ -21858,14 +21858,16 @@ About the Author
 @end ifnottex
 
 @quotation
-Robert J. Chassell has worked with GNU Emacs since 1985.  He writes
-and edits, teaches Emacs and Emacs Lisp, and speaks throughout the
+Robert J. Chassell started working with GNU Emacs in 1985.  He wrote
+and edited, taught Emacs and Emacs Lisp, and spoke throughout the
 world on software freedom.  Chassell was a founding Director and
-Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.  He is co-author of
-the @cite{Texinfo} manual, and has edited more than a dozen other
-books.  He graduated from Cambridge University, in England.  He has an
-abiding interest in social and economic history and flies his own
-airplane.
+Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.  He was co-author of
+the @cite{Texinfo} manual, and edited more than a dozen other
+books.  He graduated from Cambridge University, in England.  He had an
+abiding interest in social and economic history and flew his own
+airplane.  In 2010, he was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, and died on 30 June 2017 as a result.
+
+@uref{https://www.fsf.org/licensing/gnu-press/, "Goodbye to Bob Chassell"}
 @end quotation
 
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