Where can I get the latest version of this document (the FAQ list)?

The GNU 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 of which I know will 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 FAQ?rc:m
  

  In GNUS, you should type "C-u G" from the *Subject* buffer or "C-u SPC" from the *Newsgroup* buffer to view all articles in a newsgroup. The FAQ articles' message IDs are:

    <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-0.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu>
    <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-1.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu>
    <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-2.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu>
    <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-3.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu>
    <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-4.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu>
    <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-5.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu>
  

  If you are viewing this in the GNUS *Article* buffer, you can move point within one of the above message IDs and type "r" to fetch the referenced article. Type "o" in the *Article* buffer to restore the previous contents. If this text is not in the GNUS *Article* buffer, use M-r from the *Subject* buffer instead. 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 before November 21, 1992.
• Via anonymous FTP.You can fetch the FAQ articles via anonymous FTP

    /rtfm.mit.edu:pub/usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/ part*
  

• Via e-mail.You can send the following magical incantation in the body of a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu:

    send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part0
    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
  

• Via WAIS.The GNU Emacs FAQ is available via WAIS indexed on a per-question basis from the `faq' database on bigbird.bu.edu on the non-standard IP port number of 2210. This is probably the best way to find out if there is something in the FAQ related to your question. I use this myself to answer questions I see posted on gnu.emacs.help. The articles of the GNU Emacs FAQ are also available from the `usenet' database on rtfm.mit.edu (on the standard IP port: 210), along with a lot of other FAQ articles. However, these are all indexed at the whole article level instead of at the question level. This is a better place to look if you want to fetch the entire FAQ.
• In the GNU Emacs distribution.Since GNU Emacs 18.56, the latest available version of the FAQ at the time of release has been part of the GNU Emacs distribution as file etc/FAQ. 18.58 is the latest version, and it was released in February 1992.
• There is an old version of the FAQ list available for FTP in the GNU archives at MIT:

  
    /prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/GNUinfo/FAQ.emacs
  
  

• 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.