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diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 514179227e..85e9a900be 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -115,9 +115,14 @@ In general, we follow the [[http://mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/style.txt][Riastr to describe the conventions mostly used in Guile’s code too. It is very thoughtful and well written, so please do read it. -In addition, we require all top-level procedures to carry a docstring. This -requirement can be relaxed for simple private procedures in the (guix build …) -name space, though. +Some special forms introduced in Guix, such as the ‘substitute*’ macro, have +special indentation rules. These are defined in the .dir-locals.el file, +which Emacs automatically uses. If you do not use Emacs, please make sure to +let your editor know the rules. + +We require all top-level procedures to carry a docstring. This requirement +can be relaxed for simple private procedures in the (guix build …) name space, +though. Procedures should not have more than four positional parameters. Use keyword parameters for procedures that take more than four parameters. |