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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294162 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > What would be the reason to remove references to old Emacs versions > from the FAQ? I'm thinking maybe we should simply exempt the FAQ from > this process, which is, of course, perfectly valid for the other > documentation. The purpose is mostly just to make the text easier to read, and to make it not look outdated. For example, references to this new cool feature in Emacs 21 is not likely to be very relevant or helpful in 2022. But you may be right in general. Maybe we should really just delete the absolutely antique stuff. > The FAQ is supposed to be a place where people could look for > information like "since when does Emacs do this-and-that?". I was thinking also in terms of confused newcomers, who might be overwhelmed by secondary details. (As in: "Wait, which version of Emacs am I using? Is it Emacs 22 or newer?")