From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: manuals [was Re: Next pretest, and branching plans] Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> <87vddmpw4s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267207935 29073 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2010 18:12:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cschol2112@googlemail.com, Chong Yidong , jasonr@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 26 19:12:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl4fW-0004yv-S2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:12:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nl4XY-0002w6-3f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nl4XS-0002vv-OS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34188 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nl4XQ-0002vL-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl4XO-0001lq-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:55212) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl4XO-0001lm-Jq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl4XN-0001rh-86; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:41 -0500 X-Spook: Honduras Consul JSOFC3IP Roswell Vince Foster Fedayeen X-Ran: xfW#3IcO./0B<(q@[Bqj2q5G!ZCB`:~@`n&Xn/kF-}|/j3"G55pS8d8p,s0hJeO/C!1s6M X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121403 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > The next step is to reread the whole text looking for statements that > have become outdated or incorrect, and fix them. > > The next step is to ask other people to do likewise, looking for > double coverage. Emacs 23.2 is to 23.1 as 22.2 was to 22.1: largely a bug-fix release, with a few stand-alone new features. I seem to recall that for Emacs 22.x, the manuals were thoroughly checked in the way you describe only before 22.1. After that, they were only updated were needed. The manuals were checked quite well before 23.1, so following the same policy as for Emacs 22, and only updating them where needed, seems fine to me. The big changes in 23.2 are CEDET, which has its own manuals; and the change from mail-mode to message-mode. I do think the latter will affect quite a bit of documentation.