From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc/man vs etc Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:34:17 +0200 Message-ID: <85veacaw86.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189863285 10725 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2007 13:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 15:34:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IWXnG-0007lZ-By for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:34:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWXnF-0001Lf-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWXnC-0001La-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWXnA-0001LK-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWXnA-0001LH-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.42]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWXn6-0008Ps-6V; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.19]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E6432EC87; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:34:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.52]) by mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9720A2C6B6E; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:34:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-048-000.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.48.0]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CC88C461; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:34:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5BD0E1C0024C; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:34:18 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat\, 15 Sep 2007 12\:54\:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4278/Sat Sep 15 12:40:46 2007 on mail-in-12.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78965 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> Some of the man pages are still in etc/, AFAICS. Why weren't they >> moved to doc/man, together with those which were moved? > > Three of them are just jokes, so I don't think they belong to > doc/man. Of the remaining ones the gfdl manpage is not distributed. > Not sure about the emacstool manpage, but the emacstool sources > haven't been touched for a long time (last real change in 1993), so > it probably bit rotted quite a bit. We have a CVS archive when people want to get historic material. As far as I can tell, the SunView (?) versions for which this would have been interesting are no longer in use. I guess we should just throw the emacstool stuff out. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum