GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

Appendix A: Tips and Standards

This chapter describes no additional features of Emacs Lisp. Instead it gives advice on making effective use of the features described in the previous chapters.

• Style Tips Writing clean and robust programs.
• Compilation Tips Making compiled code run fast.
• Documentation Tips Writing readable documentation strings.
• Comment Tips Conventions for writing comments.
• Library Headers Standard headers for library packages.