Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I had expecting symbol definitions to be grouped together by symbol type
  > and function, eg. all `defcustom's to be listed together in a section
  > beginning "^;;; Customization variables:", and so on for symbol
  > categories ";;; Global variables:", ";;; Buffer-local variables", ";;;
  > Internal functions:", ";;; Hook functions:", ";;; Interactive
  > functions:", etc.

The reason Lisp files are not always organized that way is that other
ways of organizing them sometimes make more sense.  For instance, to
put a variable definition next to the functions that it relates to.
To put internal functions next to the entry points that call them.


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