From 2b18055e4e523798eb6e826a2ed3949c9dfcefc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:04:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Expand NEWS entry on old-style backquotes. --- etc/NEWS | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 2e50271d2dd..065d2d5b91d 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -995,7 +995,16 @@ coordinate in the POSITION list now counts from the top of the text area, excluding any header line. Previously, it counted from the top of the header line. -** A backquote not followed by a space is now always treated as new-style. +--- +** 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. --- ** view-buffer now treats special mode-class in the same way that -- 2.39.2