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: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:15:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1e249214-6831-4c2b-98a4-d16a6d1d7048@default> <77dedbec-9cd8-4fca-87d4-219ceb4c9d41@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451877349 20481 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2016 03:15:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 03:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 04:15:40 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 1aFvcS-0001EN-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 04:15:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43669 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFvcR-0008Qu-4S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFvcF-0008Qd-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:15:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFvcE-0006XU-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFvcA-0006Wz-HW; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:15:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aFvc9-0002UA-UE; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:15:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <77dedbec-9cd8-4fca-87d4-219ceb4c9d41@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 2 Jan 2016 09:19:01 -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:197565 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. ]]] > My proposal is for GNU Emacs to post the complete Emacs and Elisp > manuals for older versions. We could even add a command similar to > what I posted here, which takes the current release into account > when determining the URL. I see no reason to object to having older manuals in gnu.org/software/emacs, if someone wants to post them. -- 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.