From: Glenn Morris Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:04:36 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Expand NEWS entry on old-style backquotes. X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/1%29.2+1-2+rpi1~1^2~324^2~911 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:///%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=393052a99a8b5c6676e9d9c968c1852eb2484aae;p=emacs.git Expand NEWS entry on old-style backquotes. --- 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