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Re[1]: Emacs lisp file templates?
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Eric M. Ludlam |
Subject: |
Re[1]: Emacs lisp file templates? |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:48:07 -0500 |
>>> Bill Wohler <address@hidden> seems to think that:
> The header of the mh-e files contain stuff from maintainers past.
> Stuff like this:
>
> ;; Time-stamp: <2001-07-15 09:36:30 pavel>
> ;; Maintainer: Bill Wohler <address@hidden>
> ;; Keywords: mail
> ;; Bug-reports: include `M-x mh-version' output in any correspondence
>
> Some of them are used in other lisp files, others are not. Other
> than the copyright info, I could not find these header fields defined
> in the Information For Maintainers of GNU Software, GNU Coding
> Standards, or the Coding Conventions section of the Emacs Lisp
> manual.
>
> Is there a document or template that discusses the header of an
> Emacs lisp file and describes what must, should, or could be there?
> Is there software that maintains these header fields? Uses them?
>
> I'd like these files to be conformant and consistent. I have no idea
> about the former; they certainly aren't the latter. Thanks!
[ ... ]
One of the best ways to see if your headers are in good order is to
run 'lm-verify' in lisp-mnt (I think lm stands for Lisp Maintainer).
Checkdoc will do some of those checks via the lisp-mnt package also.
Eric
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