From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:36:09 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <878w8zj03a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9uudnY0F7J_qFjfWnZ2dnUVZ8oCdnZ2d@posted.visi> <87mxxweqr6.fsf@rapttech.com.au> <87mxxt32gq.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273003845 30873 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 20:10:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:10:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 22:10:43 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9OS3-0006dj-5m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 22:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9OS2-0006TW-8n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 16:10:42 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news.netcologne.de!ramfeed1.netcologne.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M1Q399Phosh0sPb/P+GVs+HPiBI= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 07 Apr 2010 07:36:09 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0d9fbd40.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=QS6BlL1`GP@A@P]\DA9EHlD; 3YcB4Fo<]lROoRA8kF5MOK`^FMB Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177656 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73126 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas writes: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:19:25 +0100, "akaiser@visi.com" wrote: >> Up to date? >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html >> Updated: $Date: 2007/06/10 19:32:20 $ $Author: cyd $ > > That's an online copy of an old version of the manual. No, it isn't. That's an online _page_ from 2007 pointing to an online copy of the version of the manual corresponding with the last released version of Emacs. > The bundled manual in your local Emacs installation should be more > useful, faster to access, more convenient to search through the > built-in index and certainly more up-to-date. The latter not unless he is installing a developer snapshot/pretest of Emacs. -- David Kastrup