[gnu.emacs] Cut here?

fox@cs.cs.columbia.edu (David Fox) (04/12/89)

I often see elisp code postings which start with a long, helpful,
explanatory comment, followed by this:

------------------------ cut here -----------------------------

This seems silly.  Why cut off the most interesting part?  It often
includes the discussion of what to put in your .emacs file to use it.
I just put ;; in front of all the lines preceding this one, and stick
the file into a public elisp directory.  I encourage authors in the
future to eschew this "cut here" practice.

David Fox
fox@cs.columbia.edu