GNU bug report logs - #36678
27.0.50; imenu not working in C++ (maybe because of namespace)

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Message #53 received at 36678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: psmith <at> gnu.org
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, spacibba <at> aol.com, 36678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36678: 27.0.50;
 imenu not working in C++ (maybe because of namespace)
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:25:56 -0400

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  > Simplifying conventions are only workable if they are used throughout
  > the codebase.  If you have a one-man development team that's fine but 
  > convincing a larger team to adjust their coding conventions to support
  > one editor is generally not feasible.

You could say the same about our old conventions, such as open-paren
in column zero and function name in column zero.  Projects of all sizes
adopted them because they were helpful.

I therefore urge Emacs developers to work on improvements along these
lines.  If not everyone uses them, that's not our problem.


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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