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

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

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Hi

let me reiterate.  The issue is *not *the lexical-binding t or nil.

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.

All the best

MA

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 3:18 PM Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:

> Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
> >> Within N years, we will hopefully flip the switch and enable
> >> lexical-binding by default, thereby (mostly) eliminating the problem.
> >
> > Will that be really possible?  What about code in the wild?
>
> It's not an immediate proposal obviously, but yes after a long-ish
> deprecation period of `lexical-binding:nil' many of us hope that we will
> be able to flip the switch.
>


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