Re: Regarding outline headings in emacs-lisp libraries

[Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>]

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> On Jul 26, 2020, at 11:32 AM, Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> wrote:
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> - We currently don't put the `provide' form, the local variable
>  definitions and other "stuff that goes at the end" into a dedicated
>  "back matter" section.  Instead we put these things at the end
>  whatever other completely unrelated section happens to come last in
>  the file.
> 
>  In my own libraries I name that section "_" and (beside the things
>  just mentioned that have to go there because they have to be placed
>  near the end of the file) I also use it for "administrative things",
>  like adding functions to third-party hooks, test definitions,
>  font-lock keyword definitions for forms defined across the file.

Since we normally put stuff that has side-effects (other than definitions) in the end of a package (provide, hooks, etc) maybe we can call it ;;; Side effect or simply ;;; Effect? Or Something in the same line.

Yuan

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