From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre - 1981-ish version Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:54:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83eerl33j5.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="53085"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, excalamus@tutanota.com, eduardoochs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 05:55:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jatLi-000DiO-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 05:55:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40308 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatLh-0005v7-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatLA-0005Vm-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatL9-0002YJ-Gd; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jatL7-0007DC-LC; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:54:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Pluim on Mon, 18 May 2020 17:27:41 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250856 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. ]]] > Richard> Perhaps we should make a page and a canned response, "Check the Emacs > Richard> manuals before you believe what other people's web site say about > Richard> Emacs." And publicize that in lots of ways. > These are not "other people's web sites", theyʼre the Emacs manuals on > gnu.org, just for a different version of Emacs from the one the user > is running. That is unfortunate. Does anyone have a concrete idea for how we could improve this? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)