From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:11:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aFVL3-0000Fj-8h@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:46:17 -0800 (PST))
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> Can GNU Emacs not provide its users with the doc for more
> than one release on line? How hard and how costly is that?
1+.
In addition, I think the text about defadvice was deleted from the
manual too soon. Just because it is no longer the recommended
interface is no reason to remove it from the Lisp manual.
> Nothing can ever be "removed" from the Internet. You can find your
> v24.3 version of ELisp manual, and in it the chapter about advising,
> here:
Yes, one can do that, but `i defadvice' ought to work.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-02 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-02 16:46 Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web Drew Adams
2016-01-02 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-02 17:11 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-02 17:19 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-04 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-02 23:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-01-03 3:57 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 4:09 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 4:18 ` raman
2016-01-03 10:55 ` David Kastrup
2016-01-03 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 2:07 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-03 3:14 ` raman
2016-01-03 3:32 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 7:08 ` Teemu Likonen
[not found] <<1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default>
[not found] ` <<83a8onc3vc.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 17:19 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 6:33 ` Ivan Shmakov
[not found] ` <<E1aFVL3-0000Fj-8h@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-01-02 23:16 ` Drew Adams
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