Re: Robert J. Chassel reference in Intro to Emacs Lisp

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

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> On May 18, 2019, at 22:15, Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 13:59, Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com <mailto:brandelune@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> The link URL should be <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/goodbye-to-bob-chassell <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/goodbye-to-bob-chassell>>.

OMG, that was a really bad copy-paste job :)

Thank you Richard !

Jean-Christophe Helary
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From 0ab0e522b0c32d4be0c6f37fa815565b710a2319 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 22:54:15 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Add references to R.J.Chassel's death

---
 doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
index 519decb1d0..ee4c886cc2 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/blogs/community/goodbye-to-bob-chassell, "Goodbye to Bob Chassell"}
 @end quotation
 
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