Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting

[Eli Zaretskii]

On October 20, 2020 8:55:48 AM GMT+03:00, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> 
wrote:
> On 2020-10-20 01:11, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider   
> ]]]
> > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,    
> ]]]
> > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
> ]]]
> >
> >   > 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?

It's an appendix in the ELisp manual.  Type "g Tips RET".