Re: Comment conventions, adding an explicit Header.

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>:
> I have written a mode which transforms an Emacs-Lisp file into an
> org-mode file. So you can view (and edit) your comments in org-mode,
> while maintaining a normal elisp file (i.e. it doesn't require tangling
> as an org-mode babel file would). In this process ";;; Commentary:"
> lines get transformed into Org mode section one headers. This works
> nicely, but the lack of a ";;; Header:" line, means that the metadata
> and copyright is outside of the org-mode structure. Adding a ";;;
> Header:" is a simple way of circumventing this.

I believe I was the person who made the ";;; Commentary" header
general across the Lisp library, back around '92 or '93. (Possibly I
generalized it from previous sporadic examples rather than inventing it;
I don't remember.)

When I did so, I was thinking explicitly of enabling text analysis by
introducing a structural semantic clue.  I did not anticipate org
mode, but you are extending the concept in the direction I intended.

+1
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