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: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:11:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451776337 29624 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2016 23:12:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:12:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 03 00:12:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFVLD-0006Bv-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:12:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFVLB-00084I-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:12:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFVL8-00083M-Am for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:12:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFVL7-0008BK-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:12:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFVL3-00087B-Oe; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:11:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aFVL3-0000Fj-8h; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:11:57 -0500 In-reply-to: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:46:17 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197389 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Can GNU Emacs not provide its users with the doc for more > than one release on line? How hard and how costly is that? 1+. In addition, I think the text about defadvice was deleted from the manual too soon. Just because it is no longer the recommended interface is no reason to remove it from the Lisp manual. > Nothing can ever be "removed" from the Internet. You can find your > v24.3 version of ELisp manual, and in it the chapter about advising, > here: Yes, one can do that, but `i defadvice' ought to work. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.