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D. Tips and Conventions

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, and describes conventions Emacs Lisp programmers should follow.

You can automatically check some of the conventions described below by running the command M-x checkdoc RET when visiting a Lisp file. It cannot check all of the conventions, and not all the warnings it gives necessarily correspond to problems, but it is worth examining them all.

D.1 Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions  Conventions for clean and robust programs.
D.2 Tips for Making Compiled Code Fast  Making compiled code run fast.
D.3 Tips for Documentation Strings  Writing readable documentation strings.
D.4 Tips on Writing Comments  Conventions for writing comments.
D.5 Conventional Headers for Emacs Libraries  Standard headers for library packages.


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