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bug#36678: 27.0.50; imenu not working in C++ (maybe because of namespace
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#36678: 27.0.50; imenu not working in C++ (maybe because of namespace) |
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Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:25:56 -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)