Hi Philipp,

thanks for working on this.

>  > It would be reasonable and easy to remove the "Loading `nil'" part in
>  > the case where no file is being loaded.
>
>  Yes, I think that would be good.
>
> OK, I've sent a patch to do that:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-12/msg00901.html

Yes, that should be ok, I think.

>  > Otherwise I'd accept introducing a variable to control whether
>  > oldstyle backquotes should raise an error or get interpreted as
>  > newstyle.
>
>  That would be optimal for my case.
>
> I've sent a patch for this as well:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-12/msg00902.html

Thanks.  Looks like it does what I want.