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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: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:07:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy4rwz656.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3xoo8uj.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Fri,  31 Oct 2014 10:02:28 +0000")

> Oh, it doesn't need to be there. I am wondering whether it *can* be
> there and iff it is, does it break everything.

These are just comments, so they won't break anything, no.
And yes, you can add them to your files.  But I think it'd be better to
find a way to make whateveryouredoing work on all files.

> I think the latter is nicer, that's all.

I'm pretty sure there's a way you can get "the latter" without having to
change the file.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-31 14:07 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
2014-10-31 10:02           ` Phillip Lord
2014-10-31 14:07             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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