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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: psmith@gnu.org
Cc: acm@muc.de, spacibba@aol.com, 36678@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36678: 27.0.50; imenu not working in C++ (maybe because of namespace)
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:25:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1huShA-0003xE-W4@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <660b8e7fc0ed45816f2a964871e13009ea574e12.camel@gnu.org> (message from Paul Smith on Sun, 04 Aug 2019 09:56:13 -0400)

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  > Simplifying conventions are only workable if they are used throughout
  > the codebase.  If you have a one-man development team that's fine but 
  > convincing a larger team to adjust their coding conventions to support
  > one editor is generally not feasible.

You could say the same about our old conventions, such as open-paren
in column zero and function name in column zero.  Projects of all sizes
adopted them because they were helpful.

I therefore urge Emacs developers to work on improvements along these
lines.  If not everyone uses them, that's not our problem.


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)







  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-05  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-15 20:33 bug#36678: 27.0.50; imenu not working in C++ (maybe because of namespace) Ergus
     [not found] ` <mailman.1463.1563222851.2688.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2019-07-17 14:39   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-17 16:34   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-31 15:56     ` Ergus
2019-08-02 19:33       ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]       ` <20190802193315.GC11966@ACM>
2019-08-02 19:56         ` Paul Smith
2019-08-03  2:25           ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-03 11:27           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-03 15:09             ` Paul Smith
2019-08-04  3:01               ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-04 13:56                 ` Paul Smith
2019-08-05  2:25                   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-08-04  2:56             ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-04  8:51               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-05  2:26                 ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]           ` <E1htjjb-0002eO-Fo@fencepost.gnu.org>
2019-08-03  7:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-03 14:43             ` Paul Smith
2019-08-05  2:24               ` Richard Stallman

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