From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 50447@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50447: [PATCH] Remove very old NEWS from the FAQ
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:08:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y288q5mw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=FESb0_VQnffOXrhN0rkYd0mujREF0yLzJtJy=rQLfhQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 7 Sep 2021 03:31:39 +0200)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 03:31:39 +0200
>
> The section in the Emacs FAQ about NEWS in various Emacs versions
> going back to version 20 is interesting as a historical exercise, but
> probably not relevant in an FAQ.
>
> I suggest we remove anything older than Emacs 24 at this point. See
> the attached patch.
Rationale? Without that, the only way of finding when some important
feature was added is by tediously searching NEWS.
I say let's leave those 200 lines alone, they don't cause any trouble
to anyone.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-07 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-07 1:31 bug#50447: [PATCH] Remove very old NEWS from the FAQ Stefan Kangas
2021-09-07 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-07 6:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-07 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 13:22 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-07 14:49 ` bug#50447: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-07 14:43 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-07 15:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-07 16:22 ` Stefan Kangas
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