Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre - 1981-ish version

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sat, 16 May 2020 00:19:30 -0400, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 
>>>>> said:

    Richard> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    
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    Richard> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     
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    Richard> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. 
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    >> > "website so and so says this, but my Emacs behaves differently", where
    >> > the solution is to consult the documentation inside emacs. It appears
    >> > people have become conditioned to doing a web search for manuals,

    Richard> Perhaps we should make a page and a canned response, "Check the 
Emacs
    Richard> manuals before you believe what other people's web site say about
    Richard> Emacs."  And publicize that in lots of ways.

These are not "other people's web sites", theyʼre the Emacs manuals on
gnu.org, just for a different version of Emacs from the one the user
is running.

Robert