Subject: Re: bug#41681: 27.0.91; Remove obsolete reference to the Emacs Lisp List?

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:12:28 -0700

tags 41681 + patch
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> C-h C-e shows an info page explaining how to find extra packages.
>>
>> This page contains a reference to the Emacs Lisp List:
>> https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/emacs/ell.html
>>
>> The list has not been updated since 2014 and many links are broken.
>
> That command shows a section on our FAQ, so the FAQ needs to be fixed.
>
>> See these 6 broken links among the 7 first entries:
>>
>> http://www.davep.org/emacs/5x5.el
>> http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/comp-e.html
>> http://www.geocities.com/mkjunker/stuff.html#emacs
>> http://sites.ugcs.caltech.edu/~shulman/pub/Main/Software/abc-mode.el
>> http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter/acldoc.el
>>
>> I simply suggest to remove this link from the Emacs manual and to add
>> it to emacswiki, if needed.
>
> I don't want to trade our documentation for the wiki, because the
> latter is not under our control, and the quality of the information
> there cannot be guaranteed.  Why not simply fix our FAQ to be more
> up-to-date?

It does seem less than useful these days.

How about just removing the reference, like in the attached patch?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
From c5e4291d74a6ffa2d6b03b2a3658af45ce9928f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 02:59:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove reference to Emacs Lisp List from FAQ

* doc/misc/efaq.texi (Packages that do not come with Emacs): Remove
reference to Emacs Lisp List.  (Bug#41681)
---
 doc/misc/efaq.texi | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq.texi b/doc/misc/efaq.texi
index 82467048a0..8bdb9f37f0 100644
--- a/doc/misc/efaq.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/efaq.texi
@@ -3464,7 +3464,6 @@ Packages that do not come with Emacs
 @cindex Finding other packages
 @cindex Lisp packages that do not come with Emacs
 @cindex Packages, those that do not come with Emacs
-@cindex Emacs Lisp List
 @cindex Emacs Lisp Archive
 
 The easiest way to add more features to your Emacs is to use the
@@ -3500,10 +3499,6 @@ Packages that do not come with Emacs
 additional extensions.  @uref{https://wikemacs.org, WikEmacs} is an
 alternative wiki for Emacs.
 
-@uref{http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/emacs/ell.html, The Emacs
-Lisp List (ELL)}, has pointers to many Emacs Lisp files, but at time
-of writing it is no longer being updated.
-
 It is impossible for us to list here all the sites that offer Emacs
 Lisp packages.  If you are interested in a specific feature, then
 after checking Emacs itself and GNU ELPA, a web search is often the
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