From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 19:32:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451791981 15587 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2016 03:33:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 03:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 03 04:32:48 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFZPU-0005bE-CL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 04:32:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFZPT-0007tc-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 22:32:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38733) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFZPQ-0007tT-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 22:32:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFZPN-0006w3-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 22:32:44 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:25916) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFZPN-0006vm-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 22:32:41 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u033Wchr002915 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 3 Jan 2016 03:32:39 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u033WcH7003768 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 3 Jan 2016 03:32:38 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0004.oracle.com (abhmp0004.oracle.com [141.146.116.10]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u033Wc4D011235; Sun, 3 Jan 2016 03:32:38 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197406 Archived-At: > 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. >=20 > 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.