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Versions of Emacs Manuals on web


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Versions of Emacs Manuals on web
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:16 -0400

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  > AFAICT, we provide only one version of the manual on gnu.org.  Maybe we
  > should have a copy for each version, with pointers between them....

  > For example, Python does a good job at that: https://docs.python.org/3/

  > Another idea would be to add a brief note to the top of every page along
  > the lines of: "This is the web version of the GNU Emacs manual for
  > version 27.1.  It may or may not correspond to the version of Emacs you
  > have installed.  You can always read the manual in Emacs with the
  > command C-h i (press CTRL-h and then i)."

They both sound good to me.  Does anyone propose a reason
why one of these should not be done?

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Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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