From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interest in "Elisp lint"-like tool? Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:50:50 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87sjiwywl1.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328007079 15657 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2012 10:51:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:51:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 31 11:51:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsBJ0-0006H2-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:51:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsBIw-0006Ag-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsBIu-0006Aa-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsBIm-00057b-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54683) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsBIm-00057N-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:51:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsBIh-0006AP-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:50:59 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:50:59 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:50:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wy44rS0QFWBYK3yFDlsdplwIt80= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148060 Archived-At: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:45:57 -0500 Daniel Hackney wrote: DH> Having done random hacking on and reading of some of the elisp libraries DH> around the web, especially in the various ELPA archives, there is a lack DH> of consistency across the different packages. They can range from DH> small-ish things like newline characters to documentation styles to more DH> significant things like the presence of autoloads, which are especially DH> significant for packages installed via ELPA. ... DH> Some of these style choices seem fairly uncontroversial (like making DH> sure `provide' is at the end of the file), and I think it would be a DH> boon to the community to have some further standardization around best DH> practices and expected patterns. This becomes especially relevant in DH> light of the "packagization" of an increasing number of Elisp libraries, DH> as they do not go through the rigors of making it into Emacs core. DH> What do you all think? I would appreciate such a tool. Ted