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 * If all goes well, this FAQ should also be available via anonymous ftp and e-mail from rtfm.mit.edu, the main repository for FAQs and other items posted to news.answers. However, we are omitting explicit directions on how to retrieve the FAQ from rtfm.mit.edu, since it's possible that it won't end up there right away. (We're new at this FAQ-posting business.) Instructions on how to retrieve the FAQ from rtfm.mit.edu should be in the next version of the FAQ. * 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.