From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comment conventions, adding an explicit Header. Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:13:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d299eu1d.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a94dd5hi.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87r3xpbjhb.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414776876 9390 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2014 17:34:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:34:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 18:34:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkG5k-00051w-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:34:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkG5k-0003MD-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:34:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35067) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkEGZ-0001ad-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjtIN-0000n8-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:59138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjtIN-0000mg-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id s9UHDuEF007668; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D840A660F3; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:13:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87r3xpbjhb.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:38:56 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5110=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5110> : inlines <1462> : streams <1330569> : uri <1830481> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176101 Archived-At: > 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