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: Regarding outline headings in emacs-lisp libraries Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 19:23:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83ft9eb5yw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875zalolt7.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ikmmly.fsf@bernoul.li> <87imeal72x.fsf@bernoul.li> <83k0yqbc2a.fsf@gnu.org> <87d04il1ta.fsf@bernoul.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31260"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 26 18:24:50 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 1jzjSD-000802-UO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:24:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51464 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jzjSC-0000Yr-VV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:24:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jzjRE-00006w-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jzjRC-0001DQ-Hc; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:23:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1902 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jzjRC-00065s-1a; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:23:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d04il1ta.fsf@bernoul.li> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:43:13 +0200) 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:253263 Archived-At: > From: Jonas Bernoulli > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:43:13 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I think I asked a question about the proposed use of the "Code" > > heading under your proposal, and I'd still like to discuss that issue, > > because it sounds like that heading will no longer have any role. > > Yes you did but I though that this part of what you are replying to > addressed that: > > > The ‘;;; Code:’ section itself should > > be used for the ‘require’ forms and for other such "front > > matter". That's okay, but we will have to rename it to something else, then. > I am also listing a few more things explicitly in my response to Stefan, > i.e.: > > > This section may also contain other > > things that "have to happen early on" and/or "don't fit anywhere > > else". For example the definition of `PACKAGE-version' or internal > > variables and macros that are used early on. > > We all have seen plenty of libraries and know the messy bits that tend > to accumulate at the beginning of their code portion. That's the stuff > that I would leave inside the "Code:" section. The bits that come > before the first `defgroup' (if any). "Preliminaries"?