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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:46:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> 
> Suppose you are using Emacs 24.3 (or Emacs 23 or...).  You visit
> the Elisp manual and you use `i defadvice' to visit the advice doc.
> 
> You want to visit the same manual section on line (HTTP).  Perhaps
> you want to bookmark it for use when you do not have Emacs available.
> Or maybe you want to send the URL to someone or post it in online
> Emacs help.  Or maybe you want to print some of the HTML pages.
> 
> Here's the rub.  Only the manuals for the latest Emacs release
> are available on line.  And because Emacs (unwisely) removed the
> doc for `defadvice', you are out of luck.  There is no online doc
> for you.

Nothing can ever be "removed" from the Internet.  You can find your
v24.3 version of ELisp manual, and in it the chapter about advising,
here:

  
https://web.archive.org/web/20121224105042/http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Advising-Functions.html#Advising-Functions

(Google for "wayback machine" if you want to find old versions of some
URLs, including URLs that no longer exist.)