Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?

[Adam Porter]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> Adam Porter [2021-09-22 20:48 -0500] wrote:
>
>> Is there a cleaner way to do this?
>
> Here's what I do, FWIW:
>
> (with-eval-after-load 'shortdoc
>   (declare-function shortdoc-add-function "shortdoc" (group section elem))
>   (mapc
>    (pcase-lambda (`(,section . ,elems))
>      (dolist (elem elems)
>        (setq elem `(,(car elem) :no-manual t ,@(cdr elem)))
>        (shortdoc-add-function 'foo section elem)))
>    '(("Frobnicating"
>       (foo-frobnicate
>        :no-eval (foo-frobnicate)
>        :eg-result-string "...")
>       ...)
>      ("Bifurcating"
>       (foo-bifurcate
>        :no-eval (foo-bifurcate)
>        :eg-result "...")
>       ...)
>      ...)))

Hi Basil,

Thanks, that does seem to produce fewer warnings in older Emacs
versions.  (Of course, package-lint complains about using
with-eval-after-load outside of user configuration, but that's not
Emacs's fault.)