From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs on-line manual Date: 15 Jan 2007 05:50:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1168869044.188713.313900@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168880872 8676 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2007 17:07:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 15 18:07:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H6VJD-0001xf-2l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:07:47 +0100 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6VIe-0008SQ-8i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:07:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6T1L-0001EM-TC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:41:11 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.213 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1168869054 17210 127.0.0.1 (15 Jan 2007 13:50:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:50:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.213; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144703 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40295 Archived-At: grzegorz.plotnicki@thomson.com wrote: > does anybody else has also problems getting to the on-line emacs manual > for version 21.4? the manual link on the download web page for 21.4 > (http://directory.fsf.org/emacs.html) points to version 22.0.50... > > thanQ If you download the distribution from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ then it will contain the relevant Emacs manual as an info file. Sometimes distributions package the Emacs info file separately from Emacs so you have to go looking for it. Some distros don't package it at all (packaging a program without its docs is really dumb, but it appears there are people stupid enough to do it).