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> From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:05:47 +0100
> 
> Re-Writing is a basic tenet amongst writers, but not among programmers it seems.

The 2 Emacs manuals weigh in at almost 2000 pages of printed text.
Rewriting that is a Gargantuan task that is hardly justified in this
case.