Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting

[Boruch Baum]

On 2020-10-20 01:11, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>   > Also, this is an opportunity to address a pet peeve: I occasionally see
>   > code either defining keybindings to lambda functions, or setting lambda
>   > functions as elements of function lists (eg. lists of hook functions).
>   > I'd like to propose that those uses be banned because of their
>   > difficulty to modify.
>
> I think we recommend not doing that.  Maybe we should say this also in
> tips.texi.  Want to propose a patch?

For all the many years I've been using emacs and coding in elisp, I have
no idea what tips.texi is or how to access it! I guess that speaks to
another subject discussed on this list: the fragmentation and abundance
of emacs help resources?

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