From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comment conventions, adding an explicit Header.
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:13:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfve58ox8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3xpbjhb.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:38:56 +0000")
> Indeed. These will not currently be treated as sections. I could make
> them so.
That would be good, since that's a common case and it also agrees with
the official convention (which says that anything that starts with
"^;;;+ [^ \n]" is a sectioning comment).
> All good feedback. Can I conclude that so far there would be no show
> stopping problem with adding a ";;; Header:" line where it was wanted?
I must say I don't like the idea of adding ";;; Header:" to every Elisp
file, no. At least not without a very strong argument for it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-30 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-30 10:22 Comment conventions, adding an explicit Header Phillip Lord
2014-10-30 11:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 12:24 ` Phillip Lord
2014-10-30 12:33 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-10-30 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 13:58 ` Phillip Lord
2014-10-30 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 16:38 ` Phillip Lord
2014-10-30 17:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-31 10:02 ` Phillip Lord
2014-10-31 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-31 16:10 ` Phillip Lord
2014-11-01 1:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-03 10:04 ` Phillip Lord
2014-11-03 11:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-03 15:22 ` Phillip Lord
2014-10-31 11:50 ` Gregor Zattler
2014-10-31 16:42 ` Phillip Lord
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