From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934386AbcAYUBo (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:01:44 -0500 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:59421 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933261AbcAYUBk (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:01:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:01:38 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "Geyslan G. Bem" Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, joe@perches.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] codingstyle: improve elisp for a better experience Message-ID: <20160125130138.6932dda8@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <338209df38fcc0cd1c63a88211365177c05b2c87.1453425443.git.geyslan@gmail.com> References: <338209df38fcc0cd1c63a88211365177c05b2c87.1453425443.git.geyslan@gmail.com> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:18:30 -0300 "Geyslan G. Bem" wrote: > This patch does use of more emacs functionalities which deliver to the > user indentation, commenting and white space highlighting. So perhaps it's just me, but that's an awful lot of elisp code for readers to wade through; many of those readers will not be all that interested in it. Can I suggest an alternative? Make a kernel-dot-emacs.txt in a form that interested people can pull it (nearly) directly into their .emacs files, then add a reference to the CodingStyle document. That makes the stuff available for interested developers without rubbing everybody's noses in it. Make sense? Thanks, jon