[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5158: closed (23.1; bytecomp ref to elisp manual on old style backquotes)

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> 23.1; bytecomp ref to elisp manual on old style backquotes
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> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:37:14 +1100
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> Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
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> Byte compiling
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>     (defmacro foo (thing)
>       (` (some ,thing)))
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>     x.el:1:1:Warning: !! The file uses old-style backquotes !!
>     This functionality has been obsolete for more than 10 years already
>     and will be removed soon.  See (elisp)Backquote in the manual.
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> But that node in the elisp manual doesn't describe the old syntax or
> what, if anything, you have to do to stop "removed soon" from breaking
> your code.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
>  of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian
> configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' 
> '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 
> '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
> '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
>  '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 
> 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g 
> -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_AU
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Re: bug#6521: 23.2; Elisp Manual Ommission
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> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:03:11 +0200
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> [ Can't remember responding yet. ]
> >> Could you send it along, so we could see what it looks like (to better
> >> assess whether it means we have a serious problem, or if it's just
> >> bad luck).
> > The code which failed to compile was BBDB as bundled with Debian testing. Do
> > you want me to send the error message that was generated? (note that the code
> > still compiles with emacs23).
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> AFAIK, this problem has been fixed a little while back.
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>         Stefan
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