From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, excalamus@tutanota.com,
stefankangas@gmail.com, eduardoochs@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Versions of Emacs Manuals on web
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 16:19:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d06x5stx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1jbc64-0006gM-UK@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:16 -0400)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, excalamus@tutanota.com,
> eduardoochs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:16 -0400
>
> > AFAICT, we provide only one version of the manual on gnu.org. Maybe we
> > should have a copy for each version, with pointers between them....
>
> > For example, Python does a good job at that: https://docs.python.org/3/
>
> > Another idea would be to add a brief note to the top of every page along
> > the lines of: "This is the web version of the GNU Emacs manual for
> > version 27.1. It may or may not correspond to the version of Emacs you
> > have installed. You can always read the manual in Emacs with the
> > command C-h i (press CTRL-h and then i)."
>
> They both sound good to me. Does anyone propose a reason
> why one of these should not be done?
I think the main improvement is from providing a link to get old
versions of the manual. The other alternative cannot hurt, but it is
less useful, especially if I visit the site in a Web browser.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-21 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-14 6:24 GNU Emacs raison d'etre - 1981-ish version Eduardo Ochs
2020-05-14 16:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-14 21:26 ` excalamus--- via Emacs development discussions.
2020-05-15 8:55 ` Robert Pluim
2020-05-15 10:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 4:19 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-18 15:27 ` Robert Pluim
2020-05-19 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-19 4:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-19 4:51 ` andres.ramirez
2020-05-21 3:42 ` Versions of Emacs Manuals on web Richard Stallman
2020-05-21 5:22 ` andrés ramírez
2020-05-21 8:02 ` Joost Kremers
2020-05-21 15:20 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-21 15:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-21 16:13 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-21 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-21 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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