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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	excalamus@tutanota.com, eduardoochs@gmail.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre - 1981-ish version
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 17:27:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m25zcte00i.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1jZoIM-0004iq-CS@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 16 May 2020 00:19:30 -0400")

>>>>> On Sat, 16 May 2020 00:19:30 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> said:

    Richard> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
    Richard> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
    Richard> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

    >> > "website so and so says this, but my Emacs behaves differently", where
    >> > the solution is to consult the documentation inside emacs. It appears
    >> > people have become conditioned to doing a web search for manuals,

    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.

Robert



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-14  6:24 GNU Emacs raison d'etre - 1981-ish version Eduardo Ochs
2020-05-14 16:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-14 21:26 ` excalamus--- via Emacs development discussions.
2020-05-15  8:55   ` Robert Pluim
2020-05-15 10:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16  4:19       ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-18 15:27         ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-05-19  3:54           ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-19  4:39             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-19  4:51               ` andres.ramirez
2020-05-21  3:42                 ` Versions of Emacs Manuals on web Richard Stallman
2020-05-21  5:22                   ` andrés ramírez
2020-05-21  8:02                   ` Joost Kremers
2020-05-21 15:20                     ` Drew Adams
2020-05-21 15:47                       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-21 16:13                         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-21  3:42               ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-21 13:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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