Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs

[David Kastrup]

Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:19:25 +0100, "akaiser@visi.com" <akaiser@visi.com> 
> wrote:
>> Up to date?
>>
>>     http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html
>>     Updated: $Date: 2007/06/10 19:32:20 $ $Author: cyd $
>
> That's an online copy of an old version of the manual.

No, it isn't.  That's an online _page_ from 2007 pointing to an online
copy of the version of the manual corresponding with the last released
version of Emacs.

> The bundled manual in your local Emacs installation should be more
> useful, faster to access, more convenient to search through the
> built-in index and certainly more up-to-date.

The latter not unless he is installing a developer snapshot/pretest of
Emacs.

-- 
David Kastrup