Re: Modern Conventions for Emacs Lisp files?

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 08.04.2013 15:22, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> > 1. File structuring with outcommented Org-mode headlines (;; * Headline)
>
> There is already a standard for that:
>
>     ;;; Headline
>     ;;;; SubHeadline
>     ;;;;; SubSubHeadline
>
> outline-minor-mode understands it.
>
> > 2. Meta information not as free text anymore but as Org-mode properties,
> > maybe like this:
> > ,---------------------------------------------------------
> > | * navi-mode.el --- major-mode for easy buffer-navigation
> > |   :PROPERTIES:
> > |   :copyright: Thorsten Jolitz
> > |   :copyright-years: 2013
> > |   :version:  0.9
> > |   :licence:  GPL 2 or later (free software)
> > |   :licence-url: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
> > |   :part-of-emacs: no
> > |   :author: Thorsten Jolitz
> > |   :author_email: tjolitz AT gmail DOT com
> > |   :inspiration:  occur-mode org-mode
> > |   :keywords: emacs outline lisp
> > |   :END:
> > `---------------------------------------------------------
>
> There is already a non-free-text section with such meta-info,
> manipulated with lisp-mnt.el functions.  It looks like
>
>     ;; Author: Chinua Achebe <address@hidden>
>     ;; Maintainer: FSF
>     ;; Package: emacs
>
> It's not the same format, but that shouldn't be a major issue.
>
>
>          Stefan

Reads like another argument not to hard-code "*" as headers

Andreas