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Re: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:01:27 +0200 |
> 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.)