Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting

[Jean Louis]

* Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> [2020-10-20 09:18]:
> On 2020-10-20 01:11, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> >
> >   > Also, this is an opportunity to address a pet peeve: I occasionally see
> >   > code either defining keybindings to lambda functions, or setting lambda
> >   > functions as elements of function lists (eg. lists of hook functions).
> >   > I'd like to propose that those uses be banned because of their
> >   > difficulty to modify.
> >
> > I think we recommend not doing that.  Maybe we should say this also in
> > tips.texi.  Want to propose a patch?
> 
> For all the many years I've been using emacs and coding in elisp, I have
> no idea what tips.texi is or how to access it! I guess that speaks to
> another subject discussed on this list: the fragmentation and abundance
> of emacs help resources?

I guess texinfo file forms this section of Emacs Lisp manual, it is
then in that manual.

Tips and Conventions

* Coding Conventions::      Conventions for clean and robust programs.
* Key Binding Conventions:: Which keys should be bound by which programs.
* Programming Tips::        Making Emacs code fit smoothly in Emacs.
* Compilation Tips::        Making compiled code run fast.
* Warning Tips::            Turning off compiler warnings.
* Documentation Tips::      Writing readable documentation strings.
* Comment Tips::            Conventions for writing comments.
* Library Headers::         Standard headers for library packages.