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Checkdoc, Package Developing, and Cakes

You're not a true Emacs package developer until you run checkdoc through your packages. You'll be amazed at the number of style errors it finds. Unfortunately, not enough adepts are aware of this tool, perhaps because it's more of an icing spatula than a carving knife.

Just visit your package file and run M-x checkdoc.

It runs through the buffer and pinpoints style and spelling errors in your docstrings and comments. It won't change the taste of your chocolate cake, but it will give the icing that lovely silky smoothness.

Update 29 Jun 2014

As Grant Retke and lunaryorn were kind to point out in the comments, Flycheck does checkdoc for you.

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