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> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:10:39 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> As the Emacs documentation currently has thousands of occurrences of
> "should", it sounds like we don't generally follow the guideline you're
> suggesting.

Indeed.  And the reason is likely that our documentation is not
"technical documentation" in the sense meant in that article.