Re: More expclit guidelines for key-binding conventions

Richard Stallman <[email protected]> Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:40:12 -0400
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  > > In the cases where this is out of ignorance, I was thinking that adding
  > > a package-lint rule might help.   Not everyone runs package-lint (or its
  > > flymake backend), so ideally a byte-compiler or checkdoc warning would
  > > be better, but I'm not sure how these can be made to apply only to
  > > features as opposed to the user-init-file.

How about if every so often -- perhaps once every 2 months -- we run
this test (and maybe some others) on each package in GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA
and send the warnings to the package's developers?


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