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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.



      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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