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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: raman <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 19:32:37 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e84c96e9-1148-4cec-9ab4-8e0bf6ffa49d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91ziwn4amn.fsf@google.com>

> 1+. The decapitation of defadvice is indeed unfortunate -- it's
> replacement (nadvice) doesn't do everything that the original defadvice
> did --- and to my knowledge there were no known breakages with
> defadvice. Since that change, the new advice layer  -- inconjunction
> with the interactive-p change made some things harder, others
> impossible -- for details see the comments in the code.
> 
> I hadn't realized that the documentation had been pulled -- guess it
> makes sense from the overall perspective of what was essentially a move
> to deprecate advice.

IMO it was especially a move to promote the new.  Nothing about
deprecation calls for such doc removal.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-03  3:32 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
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 [this message]
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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