From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Function for quoting Emacs manual sections? Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:50:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877hf6p3fo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8739puoz1t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292799073 15842 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2010 22:51:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 19 23:51:08 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUS5s-00015T-EJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:51:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUS5r-0002rQ-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:51:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41626 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUS5n-0002rB-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:51:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUS5m-0006zD-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:51:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:35131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUS5m-0006z3-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUS5j-0006FS-DH; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:50:59 -0500 In-reply-to: <8739puoz1t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:08:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:133822 Archived-At: It's better to include the text in your message, rather than send a link, if the text is rather short -- around 20 lines or so. In that case, the copyright issue can be ignored. If it is bigger than that, you might as well send the URL. There is no guarantee that the hyperlink will point to the same content (or any at all) for the lifetime of the advice in archives. Any link can break, but these links don't break very often. So I don't think it is a tremendously vital issue. After all. Emacs changes too, and the advice might not apply to the future version in which the manual is structured differently. Anyway, you can state the section name in case the links change. -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org