From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Please install this doc change for me. Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:41:45 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522460434 28109 195.159.176.226 (31 Mar 2018 01:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 01:40:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 31 03:40:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f25VL-00079I-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f25XN-0000II-JW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48849) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f25Wd-0000H7-DZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f25Wc-0004Mi-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f25Wc-0004MX-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f25Wb-0004sc-OL; Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:41:45 -0400 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224193 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. ]]] diff --git a/doc/emacs/macos.texi b/doc/emacs/macos.texi index e669eaa..00e52f2 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/macos.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/macos.texi @@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ built either without window system support, with X11, or with the Cocoa interface; this section only applies to the Cocoa build. This does not support versions before macOS 10.6. + GNUstep is free software; MacOS is not. MacOS a non-free operating +system; that means it denies its users the freedom that every computer +user deserves. That is an injustice. For your freedom's sake, we +urge you to switch to a free operating system. + + We support GNU Emacs on proprietary operating systems because +we hope this taste of freedom will inspire users to escape from them. + For various historical and technical reasons, Emacs uses the term @samp{Nextstep} internally, instead of ``Cocoa'' or ``macOS''; for instance, most of the commands and variables described in this section diff --git a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi index 90f0389..ceb203c 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/msdos.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/msdos.texi @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ manual (@pxref{MS-DOS,,, emacs-xtra, Specialized Emacs Features}). section (@pxref{MS-DOS}). @end ifnottex + MS-Windows is a non-free operating system; that means it denies its +users the freedom that every computer user deserves. That is an +injustice. For your freedom's sake, we urge you to switch to a free +operating system. + + We support GNU Emacs on these proprietary operating systems because +we hope this taste of freedom will inspire users to escape from them. The behavior of Emacs on MS-Windows is reasonably similar to what is documented in the rest of the manual, including support for long file -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.