From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Source Code Formatting Standard Update
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:12:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MnZiB-0005Wt-8V@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvskep436g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:42:57 -0400)
AFAIK, the standard was not designed like this because of Emacs's
limitations, but because it was considered a good habit.
I think it is a good style, but Emacs's convention about open-paren
in column zero was the crucial immediate reason.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 19:00 Source Code Formatting Standard Update jyqvklioo
2009-09-14 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-15 15:12 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2009-09-16 11:56 ` jyqvklioo
2009-09-16 12:13 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-09-16 13:33 ` jyqvklioo
2009-09-16 13:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-09-16 14:08 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-16 13:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-15 5:53 jyqvklioo
2009-09-15 7:31 jyqvklioo
2009-09-15 7:39 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-09-15 8:03 ` David Kastrup
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