From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:11:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451754833 18870 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2016 17:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 17:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 02 18:13:45 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 1aFPkO-0000fN-A1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:13:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPkN-0002Cs-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPkJ-0002Bk-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:13:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPkF-0000tU-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::235]:35630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPkE-0000tC-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-x235.google.com with SMTP id ho8so1068964pac.2 for ; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:13:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references :user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=/+xO8EnkCk6cXH5GAk8/4wc70gMZ0mmMo2oevww92mc=; b=C42pc4BA/nuh6HZfjDD0vTV0C3VadV2VehZ+oelbPM9Q6QKewV9XM/Hr/n1+NnxEZv XUS2+FCO5uy1TOUOv/QYENYLghqHUxwAiHkehy2x3BUZQy/lLakkz0lqcY316RbQipT2 +kaXvQNg0JH2IoJ28UfHwyBdI2LSUOyM7mkOwwV34B8oazyUkpoIsscrPdg5RZQZfPzg GFrmKlMW1nlrqSf7cJOokG52cqdqlt+p3nymLbize/sSLe5LazbN0j/WWE4A+9sStMAA AuxrOpdzYJ2LCRuuypCCJrrLa1lt40UCwTVa6steyjoRowMQT7BFMX1nQ2rO2XTrJyLR Lurw== X-Received: by 10.66.164.70 with SMTP id yo6mr115222074pab.36.1451754814300; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:13:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Vulcan.local (76-234-68-79.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net. [76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 7sm110121735pfb.62.2016.01.02.09.13.33 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:13:33 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id AFA2911FACC10; Sat, 2 Jan 2016 09:13:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:46:17 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::235 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:197374 Archived-At: >>>>> Drew Adams writes: > If you have a version of GNU Emacs older than 24.4 then you are lucky to > still have `defadvice' documented in the Elisp manual. Maybe we should have a "deprecated features" manual, where text gets moved after it is removed from the Elisp manual? Even though 25.1 may not use defadvice, it still allows such code to be written, which means you'll probably run across such code in the future and would like to read documentation on how it works. I can understand taking it out of the manual, but it would be nice to have another manual for "features you may well run into in the wild, though you shouldn't write new code this way". I'm not proposing maintaining such a manual actively, but just copying deprecated sections like the "defadvice" content directly into it instead of deletion. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2