From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Versions of Emacs Manuals on web Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 16:19:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83d06x5stx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83eerl33j5.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="91319"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, excalamus@tutanota.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, eduardoochs@gmail.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 21 15:19:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jbl6y-000Nev-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 May 2020 15:19:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54640 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbl6x-00034J-Ae for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 May 2020 09:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbl6O-0002Gm-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 May 2020 09:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbl6N-0002lU-BW; Thu, 21 May 2020 09:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3449 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jbl6G-0000Xx-3X; Thu, 21 May 2020 09:19:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:16 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251166 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, excalamus@tutanota.com, > eduardoochs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:16 -0400 > > > AFAICT, we provide only one version of the manual on gnu.org. Maybe we > > should have a copy for each version, with pointers between them.... > > > For example, Python does a good job at that: https://docs.python.org/3/ > > > Another idea would be to add a brief note to the top of every page along > > the lines of: "This is the web version of the GNU Emacs manual for > > version 27.1. It may or may not correspond to the version of Emacs you > > have installed. You can always read the manual in Emacs with the > > command C-h i (press CTRL-h and then i)." > > They both sound good to me. Does anyone propose a reason > why one of these should not be done? I think the main improvement is from providing a link to get old versions of the manual. The other alternative cannot hurt, but it is less useful, especially if I visit the site in a Web browser.