Doing so causes many new compile warnings. Some of these warnings
concern genuine changes in behavior that have to be addressed right
away.
Many other warnings are due to unused variables. Nothing has changed
here, except that the byte-compiler can now detect these pre-existing
and harmless issues. We delay addressing these issues so that we can
focus on the important ones here.
A third group of warnings concern arguments that are not actually used
inside the function but which cannot be removed because the functions
signature is dictated by some outside convention. Silencing these
warning is also delayed until subsequent commits.
`outline-minor-mode' treats comments that begin with three or more
semicolons as headings. That makes it very convenient to navigate
code and to show/hide parts of a file.
Elips libraries typically have four top-level sections, e.g.:
;;; notmuch.el --- run notmuch within emacs...
;;; Commentary:...
;;; Code:...
;;; notmuch.el ends here
In this package many libraries lack a "Commentary:" section, which is
not optimal but okay for most libraries, except major entry points.
Depending on how one chooses to look at it, the "... ends here" line
is not really a heading that begins a section, because it should never
have a "section" body (after all it marks eof).
If the file is rather short, then I left "Code:" as the only section
that contains code. Otherwise I split the file into multiple sibling
sections. The "Code:" section continues to contain `require' and
`declare-function' forms and other such "front matter".
If and only if I have split the code into multiple sections anyway,
then I also added an additional section named just "_" before the
`provide' form and shortly before the "...end here" line. This
section could also be called "Back matter", but I feel it would be
distracting to be that explicit about it. (The IMO unnecessary but
unfortunately still obligatory "... ends here" line is already
distracting enough as far as I am concerned.)
Before this commit some libraries already uses section headings, some
of them consistently. When a library already had some headings, then
this commit often sticks to that style, even at the cost inconsistent
styling across all libraries.
A very limited number of variable and function definitions have to be
moved around because they would otherwise end up in sections they do
not belong into.
Sections, including but not limited to their heading, can and should
be further improved in the future.
Many of the external links found in the notmuch source can be resolved
using https instead of http. This changeset addresses as many as i
could find, without touching the e-mail corpus or expected outputs
found in tests.
Add:
- notmuch-wash-wrap-long-lines: Wrap lines longer than the width of
the current window whilst maintaining any citation prefix.
- notmuch-wash-tidy-citations: Tidy up citations by:
- compress repeated otherwise blank citation lines,
- remove otherwise blank citation lines at the head and tail of a
citation,
- notmuch-wash-elide-blank-lines: Compress repeated blank lines and
remove leading and trailing blank lines.
None of these is enabled by default - add them to
`notmuch-show-insert-text/plain-hook' to use.
Reviewed-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>: I previously committed a
stale version of this patch.
Add:
- notmuch-wash-wrap-long-lines: Wrap lines longer than the width of
the current window whilst maintaining any citation prefix.
- notmuch-wash-tidy-citations: Tidy up citations by:
- compress repeated otherwise blank citation lines,
- remove otherwise blank citation lines at the head and tail of a
citation and remove blank lines between attribution statements and
the citation,
- notmuch-wash-compress-blanks: Compress repeated blank lines and
remove leading and trailing blank lines.
Enable `notmuch-wash-tidy-citations' and
`notmuch-wash-compress-blanks' by default by adding them to
`notmuch-show-insert-text/plain-hook'. `notmuch-wash-wrap-long-lines'
is not enabled by default.
If `notmuch-wash-wrap-long-lines' is enabled, word wrapping of the
buffer leads to an unappealing display of text, so provide a function
to disable it and add it to the list of `notmuch-show-mode' hook
functions.
