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.
OK, I've now pushed both patches to master.