From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:32:22 +0300 Message-ID: <4B8FAD7D-14C6-403E-A67F-8B488AD67667@gnu.org> References: <20201019031002.iulr45ztrkwsiqlo@E15-2016.optimum.net> <20201020055548.nzw3zoucbsdx2unv@E15-2016.optimum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25681"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Boruch Baum , Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 20 10:33:43 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kUn5T-0006ZU-4Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:33:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57880 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUn5S-0002JU-3H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUn4K-0001Fn-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUn4J-00005s-TM; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:4df7:0:4fb::1] (port=44720) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kUn4C-0006RR-BW; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:32:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201020055548.nzw3zoucbsdx2unv@E15-2016.optimum.net> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258173 Archived-At: On October 20, 2020 8:55:48 AM GMT+03:00, Boruch Baum wrote: > On 2020-10-20 01:11, Richard Stallman wrote: > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider =20 > ]]] > > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, =20 > ]]] > > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example=2E > ]]] > > > > > Also, this is an opportunity to address a pet peeve: I > occasionally see > > > code either defining keybindings to lambda functions, or setting > lambda > > > functions as elements of function lists (eg=2E lists of hook > functions)=2E > > > I'd like to propose that those uses be banned because of their > > > difficulty to modify=2E > > > > I think we recommend not doing that=2E Maybe we should say this also > in > > tips=2Etexi=2E Want to propose a patch? >=20 > For all the many years I've been using emacs and coding in elisp, I > have > no idea what tips=2Etexi is or how to access it! I guess that speaks to > another subject discussed on this list: the fragmentation and > abundance > of emacs help resources? It's an appendix in the ELisp manual=2E Type "g Tips RET"=2E