Re: arch taglines for emacs

[Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>]

    > From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>

    > Tom Lord <lord@emf.net> writes:
    > > So, tell me what to do to help keep Emacs folks happy.  Your call.

    > I want to keep the tag-ids clean (no */ as part of the tag).

    > My tentative plan is to do as you've suggested, and use this format for
    > C code:

    >    /* arch-tag: ID-CONTENTS
    >       (don't change this comment) */

    > and then later when `arch-id:' is implemented, change to using:

    >    /* arch-id: "ID-CONTENTS" */


    > As long as you (Tom) are pretty sure the proposal for arch-id: will not
    > change in any way significant enough to screw up compatibility, this
    > seems like the most practical method.

That's a nice conservative approach from the arch perspective.

    > _However_, if Richard objects to temporarily having the ugly multi-line
    > comments then I'm also willing to do the grunt work for a minimal
    > implementation of arch-id:, and use that instead.

And I'm willing to pitch in on that to make it minimal but
satisfactory for the future.   Either way, really.

-t