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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.dev>,
	akater <nuclearspace@gmail.com>,
	Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Codifying some aspects of Elisp code style and improving pretty printer
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:43:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ka0x0tq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy27crfuy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:20:46 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I guess there is room for a *description* of the coding style that
> happens to be currently in use.  Especially if it comes with sufficient
> caveats to clarify that it's not a rule book.

Yeah, sure -- a section of "things we think are rather spiffy when
formatting Emacs Lisp" would be nice.  With lots of examples.

> E.g. it could have a few rules, together with a percentage of how often
> it is followed.  Could be quite useful for ethnography and maybe also
> comparative "literature", or to classify Free Software projects based on
> their preferred coding styles.

Heh heh heh.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-01 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-29 18:01 Codifying some aspects of Elisp code style and improving pretty printer akater
2021-09-30  7:02 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-30 11:26   ` Bozhidar Batsov
2021-09-30 15:15     ` akater
2021-10-01  7:05       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01 14:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-01 14:43           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-10-01 14:26         ` Robert Pluim
2021-10-01 15:26           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-01 16:15             ` Robert Pluim
2021-10-01 17:08               ` Stefan Monnier

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