Re: Modern Conventions for Emacs Lisp files?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:37:21 +0200
> Cc: Bastien <address@hidden>
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> I would prefer in this case not to investigate why this line causes such
> problems but rather to consider writing such a line a bug. 
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> So maybe Bastien could consider this a bug-report and remove this line?
> Because otherwise org.el with its more than 23000 lines is just a
> perfect example were the use of outline/outshine and navi-mode for file
> structuring, high-level (over)views on the file and easy navigation
> makes sense.

There are about 60 non-Org *.el files in Emacs which have similar
lines, and about 40 in lisp/org/.  So IMO asking people not to use
that runs a risk of being a quixotic battle.