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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About commit style
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:48:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvli8u1maw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130407141706.0ab324342bfb4e0633f03c7c@gmail.com> (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Sun, 7 Apr 2013 14:17:06 +0800")

> * Reindent the file using the default indentation parameters.

No.  You can only fix local misindentation.

Any "bulk" cosmetic changes are annoying because they are sure to bump into
someone's local changes, creating spurious conflicts.

> * Change some code from putting close-parentheses on lines by themselves
>   to Lisp style.  (Although this almost never happened.)

Same here: doing it somewhere where you're already making other changes
is fine, but doing it systematically is not.

> * Change the comments to satisfy (info "(elisp) Comment Tips").

Idem.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-07 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-06  8:13 About commit style Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-06  8:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06  9:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06 11:03     ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-06 13:10   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-06 15:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06 15:32       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-06 15:46         ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-07  6:17   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-07 15:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-07 15:48     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-04-07 22:22       ` Xue Fuqiao

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