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Remove antediluvian filename limit recommendation from tips.texi (Bug#8538).

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* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Coding Conventions): Remove antediluvian filename limit recommendation.
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2011-05-28 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
* tips.texi (Coding Conventions): Remove antediluvian filename
limit recommendation (Bug#8538).
2011-05-27 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* modes.texi (Auto Major Mode): Update for set-auto-mode changes.

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@ -203,12 +203,6 @@ defined as the first argument. That will help various tools find the
definition automatically. Avoid constructing the names in the macro
itself, since that would confuse these tools.
@item
Please keep the names of your Emacs Lisp source files to 13 characters
or less. This way, if the files are compiled, the compiled files' names
will be 14 characters or less, which is short enough to fit on all kinds
of Unix systems.
@item
In some other systems there is a convention of choosing variable names
that begin and end with @samp{*}. We don't use that convention in Emacs