RE: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> 1+. The decapitation of defadvice is indeed unfortunate -- it's
> replacement (nadvice) doesn't do everything that the original defadvice
> did --- and to my knowledge there were no known breakages with
> defadvice. Since that change, the new advice layer  -- inconjunction
> with the interactive-p change made some things harder, others
> impossible -- for details see the comments in the code.
> 
> I hadn't realized that the documentation had been pulled -- guess it
> makes sense from the overall perspective of what was essentially a move
> to deprecate advice.

IMO it was especially a move to promote the new.  Nothing about
deprecation calls for such doc removal.