22: Where can I get the latest version of this document (the FAQ list)?
The Emacs FAQ is available in several ways:
* Via USENET. If you can read news, the FAQ should be available in your
news spool, in both the gnu.emacs.help and comp.emacs newsgroups.
Every news reader should allow you to read any news article that is
still in the news spool, even if you have read the article before. You
may need to read the instructions for your news reader to discover how
to do this. In rn, this command will do this for you at the article
selection level:
?GNU Emacs Frequently Asked Questions?rc:m
In Gnus, you should type "C-u c-x c-s" from the *Summary* buffer or
"C-u SPC" from the *Newsgroup* buffer to view all articles in a
newsgroup.
If the FAQ articles have expired and been deleted from your news spool,
it might (or might not) do some good to complain to your news
administrator, because the most recent FAQ should not expire for a
while.
* Via anonymous FTP. You can always fetch the latest FAQ at
ftp://the-tech.mit.edu/pub/GNU-Emacs/faq
* In the Emacs distribution. Since Emacs 18.56, the latest available
version of the FAQ at the time of release has been part of the Emacs
distribution as file etc/FAQ (see question 4).
* Via the World-Wide Web. Point your favorite Web browser (Lynx, Mosaic,
Netscape, w3-mode) at one of the following:
http://scwww.ucs.indiana.edu/FAQ/Emacs/
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/top.html
http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/emacs/faq/index.html
* Via anonymous ftp and e-mail from rtfm.mit.edu, the main repository for
FAQs and other items posted to news.answers. The Emacs FAQs are
available at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.emacs/
If you do not have access to anonymous FTP, you can access the archives
using the rtfm.mit.edu mail server. The Emacs FAQ can be retrieved by
sending mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with a blank subject and
containing
send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part1
send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part2
send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part3
send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part4
send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part5
For more information, send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with
"help" and "index" in the body on separate lines.
* As the very last resort, you can e-mail a request to
gnu-emacs-faq-maintainers@bigbird.bu.edu. Don't do this unless you
have made a serious effort to obtain the FAQ list via one of the
methods listed above.
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