Re: Modern Conventions for Emacs Lisp files?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I modified 'outshine.el', 'outorg.el' and 'navi-mode.el' so that they
> now deal with the special case of "oldschool" elisp headers (";;;+").

I see that the lines that match "^(" aren't treated as "deepest
headers", as they are in outline-minor-mode.

Since the format of those headers is very different, it might not be
easy to support them, of course.

> I tried this on several arbitrary .el files from Emacs itself and from
> Org-mode, and it worked. Testing several files revealed that many Elisp
> libraries did not make much use of outline structuring,

Indeed, which is why it's not worth the trouble introducing a new convention.


        Stefan