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Re: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web
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Ivan Shmakov |
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Re: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:33:49 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
[…]
> Sure, the Wayback Machine is a great resource, and the Internet
> Archive responsible for it is a great place to visit in San
> Francisco.
> But telling users to look to Internet archives (or to just google for
> “defadvice emacs”) does not really answer my question of “Why not?”
> or respond to my proposal.
I see no reason we can’t do both: we can tell the users (or,
rather, their UAs) to use the Wayback machine by providing links
to the archived pages at http://gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/ – as
well as all the Emacs documentation pages referenced there.
With some effort, we could probably even link to the
documentation for specific Emacs versions from there.
> IMO we should offer Emacs users easy online access to the manuals for
> older Emacs versions, the same way we offer them easy access to the
> recent manuals and to both the recent and older versions of the
> software.
> This is the least we could do to help users and show them respect.
> It should not be easier to find information about older releases of
> Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, or IBM software than it is to find such
> info for Emacs.
I tend to agree that providing documentation for at least the
latest releases of all the major versions is a well-established
practice in the field, and I know of no reason why GNU in
general – and not just Emacs – can’t follow it.
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