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27.0.91; Remove obsolete reference to the Emacs Lisp List?

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>, 41681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41681: 27.0.91;
 Remove obsolete reference to the Emacs Lisp List?
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:12:28 -0700

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tags 41681 + patch
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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

[0001-Remove-reference-to-Emacs-Lisp-List-from-FAQ.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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