From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:32:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8FAD7D-14C6-403E-A67F-8B488AD67667@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201020055548.nzw3zoucbsdx2unv@E15-2016.optimum.net>
On October 20, 2020 8:55:48 AM GMT+03:00, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 2020-10-20 01:11, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > [[[ 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.
> ]]]
> >
> > > Also, this is an opportunity to address a pet peeve: I
> occasionally see
> > > code either defining keybindings to lambda functions, or setting
> lambda
> > > functions as elements of function lists (eg. lists of hook
> functions).
> > > I'd like to propose that those uses be banned because of their
> > > difficulty to modify.
> >
> > I think we recommend not doing that. Maybe we should say this also
> in
> > tips.texi. Want to propose a patch?
>
> For all the many years I've been using emacs and coding in elisp, I
> have
> no idea what tips.texi is or how to access it! I guess that speaks to
> another subject discussed on this list: the fragmentation and
> abundance
> of emacs help resources?
It's an appendix in the ELisp manual. Type "g Tips RET".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-20 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-19 3:10 adding to emacs coding standard / formatting Boruch Baum
2020-10-19 9:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-19 15:37 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-19 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-19 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 19:59 ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-19 20:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-21 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-21 14:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-20 5:11 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-20 5:11 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-20 5:55 ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-20 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-20 9:30 ` Jean Louis
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