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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, boruch_baum@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:46:11 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f0970a9-a27f-44f7-b8af-a1a5762e1c34@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kV5ry-000192-6W@fencepost.gnu.org>

>   > But what does this have to do with coding
>   > conventions?  (Let alone why would such usage be
>   > "banned".)
> 
>   > This is on the order of helpful tips, not coding
>   > conventions, IMO.
> 
> For users, it should be a tip.
> However, we might want to insist on this for code in Emacs, GNU ELPA
> or NonGNU ELPA when we have that.

Yes, that was my thought exactly.  Thanks for stating
it plainly.

The coding conventions in the manual serve a double
purpose.  Things mentioned there are (1) pretty much
mandatory for inclusion in Emacs and (2) recommendations
for other Elisp code (e.g. user/3rd-party).



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-21 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-19  3:10 adding to emacs coding standard / formatting Boruch Baum
2020-10-19  9:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-19 15:37   ` Drew Adams
2020-10-19 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-19 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 19:59   ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-19 20:07     ` Drew Adams
2020-10-21  4:37       ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-21 14:46         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-10-20  5:11 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-20  5:11 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-20  5:55   ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-20  8:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-20  9:30     ` Jean Louis

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