From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Modern Conventions for Emacs Lisp files? Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:26:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hajhswdh.fsf@gmail.com> <87y5csu7ml.fsf@gmail.com> <87hajgu5bp.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365456425 26438 80.91.229.3 (8 Apr 2013 21:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 21:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thorsten Jolitz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 08 23:27:09 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UPJal-0003lo-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:27:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPJal-0006Ru-7T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPJag-0006Qb-Nb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPJaf-0002DJ-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:40584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPJaf-0002Cy-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:27:01 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLSu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJCuHcwbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLSu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJCuHcwbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="6942994" Original-Received: from 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.180.174]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 08 Apr 2013 17:26:56 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BC6C862EFE; Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:26:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87hajgu5bp.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:37:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:158784 Archived-At: > The modern conventions would just be that headlines are outcommented > Org-mode headlines with whatever comment syntax the major-mode at hand > uses. But that is incompatible with the current convention to use ";;;+" where the number of semi-colons indicates depth. So it would require massive rewrites of pretty much all files. A non-starter. > That are of course different conventions, and I did not want to push any > big problematic moves or so. But with all the momentum and popularity > Org-mode enjoys, maybe such an 'Org-mode' style structuring of source > code files could become an accepted second choice (and if only in > libraries that are not part of Emacs). Couldn't "Org-mode" be made to work with the current convention? That would be a lot more useful since it would "just work" on all the existing files. Stefan