From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Windows FAQ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:02:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83r5g2odjr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83hbhes23v.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286424545 22103 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2010 04:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 04:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 07 06:09:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3hmu-0004kz-0D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:09:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43754 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3hmt-0001FV-68 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:08:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40605 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3hmh-0001EX-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3hhb-0006Qq-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3hhb-0006Qk-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:03:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9W00E00J5NRI00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:02:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.148.82]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9W00EX6J8CRG00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:02:38 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131411 Archived-At: > From: Uday S Reddy > Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:51:12 +0100 > > On 9/25/2010 8:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > That FAQ has become obsolete a long time ago. Most of its information > > is outdated and misleading. In particular, many "problems" it > > mentions were solved in the stock Emacs sources long ago. IMO, this > > FAQ should be simply removed from the GNU Emacs site. > > I would prefer if you keep it around but perhaps add a note at the top saying that parts of it may be out of date. > > Just the other day, I answered somebody's query in emacs.help newsgroup by referring to the FAQ. It didn't give him the right answer, but it pointed him in the right direction. What was the issue, and why wouldn't it be more useful if it were described in the Emacs FAQ instead? > The FAQ still has tons of information that I don't find anywhere else. Like what?