From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:37:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201019031002.iulr45ztrkwsiqlo@E15-2016.optimum.net> <83tuuqp9pi.fsf@gnu.org> <20201019195935.5m6owfzy4iuvbz2e@E15-2016.optimum.net> <2d7ec6c1-3eb8-403d-8b8e-f23d4a058033@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35588"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, boruch_baum@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 21 06:37:45 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 1kV5sf-0009BL-5v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 06:37:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44048 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kV5se-00025M-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52764) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kV5s2-0001fk-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kV5s1-0007Yo-DO; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kV5ry-000192-6W; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:37:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2d7ec6c1-3eb8-403d-8b8e-f23d4a058033@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:07:15 -0700 (PDT)) 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:258204 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > But what does this have to do with coding > conventions? (Let alone why would such usage be > "banned".) > This is on the order of helpful tips, not coding > conventions, IMO. For users, it should be a tip. However, we might want to insist on this for code in Emacs, GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA when we have that. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)