From: Chong Yidong Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 03:13:46 +0000 (+0800) Subject: etc/NEWS: Mention impact of old-style backquotes on key sequences. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-24.0.05~166 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50ab02c5cc9c84ecb6459bb3b1a041154365f8ac;p=emacs.git etc/NEWS: Mention impact of old-style backquotes on key sequences. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 2629155110f..b611d726eea 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -1049,12 +1049,16 @@ of the header line. ** Support for "old-style" backquotes, which have been obsolete for more than 10 years, has been further reduced. Now a backquote not followed by a space is always treated as a "new-style" backquote. -Please consider completely removing all "old-style" backquotes from -your code as a matter of some urgency. If your code uses backquotes -as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles without warning, then -you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not following the -appropriate conventions may fail to compile. The most common cause of -trouble seems to be an old-style backquote followed by a newline. +Please remove all "old-style" backquotes from your code. If your code +uses backquotes as documented in the Elisp manual, and compiles +without warning, then you have nothing to do in this regard. Code not +following the appropriate conventions may fail to compile. + +The most common cause of trouble seems to be an old-style backquote +followed by a newline. Another cause of trouble is vector notation +for key sequence notation: instead of [(control ,)] and [(control ')], +you should write [(control ?,)] and [(control ?')], which will work in +older Emacs too. +++ ** The macro `eval-at-startup' was removed in Emacs 23.2, but this