From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modern conventions for structuring Emacs Lisp libraries
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:52:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1VSV5I-0003Tl-9K@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hacvn8sm.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Thorsten Jolitz on Sat, 05 Oct 2013 15:31:37 +0200)
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
Our conventions for headings in Lisp code are not sacred. We can
change them if that is a good thing to do. However, the transient of
such a change is likely to cause some work and trouble for a lot of
people.
Your proposal for handling the conventional ;;; separator lines makes
sense, and I see nothing inherently wrong with it. But this seems to
assume our code should wag our conventions. It might be far less work
to change Outline mode and Org mode to understand our existing
conventions, than to change hundreds of Lisp files (including files we
don't maintain).
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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USA
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Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-05 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-05 13:31 Modern conventions for structuring Emacs Lisp libraries Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-05 16:52 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2013-10-06 16:40 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-06 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07 0:36 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-10-05 16:52 ` Richard Stallman
2013-10-05 19:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-06 8:20 ` legalese haters club Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-06 19:21 ` Modern conventions for structuring Emacs Lisp libraries Richard Stallman
2013-10-06 16:51 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-06 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-06 0:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-06 3:20 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-10-06 4:47 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-06 17:42 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-06 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-06 19:31 ` Josh
2013-10-06 19:58 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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