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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> I forgot to mention this: Emacs is supposed to be a self-documenting
> editor.

An Info manual doesn't contradict that notion.  Whether the documentation 
text is part of the code or not is IMHO immaterial as long as you have 
commands that e.g. take you from a symbol in the source to its 
documentation.