bug#47775: First line length and GNU coding standards....

[Marco Antoniotti <marco.antoniotti@unimib.it>]

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Yes, exactly.

I understand your reasoning and your decision.   But let me note that it is
the "tooling" that broke, in the mists of time, previous well established
conventions.
Having said that, I would like Emacs to *also accept* the style I propose,
not to mandate it.

In any case, I am just ranting, I know :) :) :)

All the best

Marco


On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 3:20 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Marco Antoniotti <marco.antoniotti@unimib.it> writes:
>
> > The issue is "buffer variables" vs "convention of 'name --- description'.
> >
> > TRT is to "fix" checkdoc to look for the 'name --- description' within
> the first (10)
> > lines, AND/OR to revert to the old convention of having the '-*- ...
> -*-' line(s) within
> > the first 10.
> >
> > Once that is done, the documentation can be amended accordingly,
> relaxing the
> > mandate that the first line MUST start with ;;; foo --- bar. and no
> extra update in any
> > files will be needed.
>
> If I understand correctly, you want Emacs to recommend the following
> style to start .el files:
>
> ;;; -*- Mode: Emacs-Lisp; lexical-binding: t; some-var-with-a-long-name: t
> -*-
> ;;; foo.el --- The foo pkg, which also happens to have description 79 col
> long.
>
> This would break a lot of tooling that expects the first line to have
> the package name (and description), so that's not a feasible change.
>
> The local variable section is usually put at the end of the file, but
> lexical-binding is special, in that it's not "really" a local variable,
> but has other effects, and in that we're (at one point in the future)
> going to remove all these cookies when we flip the defaults, and then
> the first lines will be shorter than 79 characters again.
>
> So I'm closing this bug report.
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
>


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