From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:01:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83a8onc3vc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451754121 8852 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2016 17:02:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 17:02:01 +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 18:01:44 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 1aFPYl-0005R0-04 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:01:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPYh-0005fR-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:01:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPYc-0005c6-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPYZ-0006ZR-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54745) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPYZ-0006ZL-G2; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:01:31 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1852 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aFPYY-0007pR-MD; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:01:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:46:17 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:197371 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:46:17 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > Suppose you are using Emacs 24.3 (or Emacs 23 or...). You visit > the Elisp manual and you use `i defadvice' to visit the advice doc. > > You want to visit the same manual section on line (HTTP). Perhaps > you want to bookmark it for use when you do not have Emacs available. > Or maybe you want to send the URL to someone or post it in online > Emacs help. Or maybe you want to print some of the HTML pages. > > Here's the rub. Only the manuals for the latest Emacs release > are available on line. And because Emacs (unwisely) removed the > doc for `defadvice', you are out of luck. There is no online doc > for you. Nothing can ever be "removed" from the Internet. You can find your v24.3 version of ELisp manual, and in it the chapter about advising, here: https://web.archive.org/web/20121224105042/http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Advising-Functions.html#Advising-Functions (Google for "wayback machine" if you want to find old versions of some URLs, including URLs that no longer exist.)