Re: Version of the Lisp Manual.

[Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl>
>> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:49:16 +0200
>> 
>> The Lisp Manual has its own version number (2.9 currently).  Does this
>> serve any purpose now that we release it together with Emacs?  Why not
>> remove the version number and just say that it is the Lisp Manual
>> corresponding to Emacs version so-and-so?
>
> The ELisp manual is printed as a book, and books have _editions_.  The
> 2.9 thingy is used as the printed manual's edition (see @titlepage),
> whose count is independent of the Emacs version documented in that
> edition of the manual.  The edition is printed on the first pages of
> the manual's printed copy.

Why not let the edition of the manual equal the version of Emacs?
When you see edition 2.5 of the Lisp manual, that probably doesn't
tell you much.  The first thing you will do is figure out to which
Emacs version that corresponds.  (I guess the same goes for the
edition of the Emacs manual.)

Lute.