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

[David Kastrup]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In addition, I think the text about defadvice was deleted from the
>> manual too soon. Just because it is no longer the recommended
>> interface is no reason to remove it from the Lisp manual.
>
> OK, since there seems to be general agreement, how about we pull
> defadvice back into the manual for 25.1, with a note that has been
> deprecated.

That seems to make sense.  However, Raman stated that nadvice does not
work for a number of use cases he currently uses defadvice for.  That
hole needs to be filled in some manner eventually, or we will never be
justified in completing deprecation.

-- 
David Kastrup