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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2011-05-28 15:05:36 -0400
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2011-05-28 15:05:36 -0400
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Remove antediluvian filename limit recommendation from tips.texi (Bug#8538).
* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Coding Conventions): Remove antediluvian filename limit recommendation.
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@@ -204,12 +204,6 @@ definition automatically. Avoid constructing the names in the macro
itself, since that would confuse these tools.
@item
-Please keep the names of your Emacs Lisp source files to 13 characters
-or less. This way, if the files are compiled, the compiled files' names
-will be 14 characters or less, which is short enough to fit on all kinds
-of Unix systems.
-
-@item
In some other systems there is a convention of choosing variable names
that begin and end with @samp{*}. We don't use that convention in Emacs
Lisp, so please don't use it in your programs. (Emacs uses such names