From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37818: [PATCH] Various FAQ updates Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 23:07:10 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0000000000005bedac059535b85c" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="157734"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: 37818@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 18 23:09:32 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iLZV6-000eyA-Hk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 23:09:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46050 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLZV5-0008VD-Ao for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:07:22 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:169684 Archived-At: --0000000000005bedac059535b85c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Please find attached three patches with FAQ updates: 1. Remove section on how to enable the default behaviour of having the region highlighted, which is probably not a frequently asked question. 2. Remove information on large files in ancient versions of Emacs that would only confuse new users. This leaves in only the information on the relatively recent versions of Emacs. 3. Update section on Emacs security to remove reference to the now very old "movemail" incident, and add relevant information on packages. Perhaps this section could be extended, or other risks added and/or removed. If anyone has any ideas for what to add, I'd be happy to do so. 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