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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Useful Or spurious: New byte-compiler warnings
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 17:48:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfop7lfm.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25238.13907.389397.270232@google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Tue, 31 May 2022 08:37:55 -0700")

"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

> I recently started getting warnings of the form:
>
> emacspeak-speak.el:2267:2: Warning: docstring has wrong usage of
> unescaped single quotes (use \= or different quoting)
>
> Is this truly useful -- or is it spurious and therefore an annoyance
> -- I just can tell.

It's to warn about things like

    (setq foo '(1 2 3))

in doc strings which turns into invalid code when displayed in *Help*.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-31 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-31 15:37 Useful Or spurious: New byte-compiler warnings T.V Raman
2022-05-31 15:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-05-31 16:30   ` T.V Raman
2022-05-31 16:33     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-01  9:22       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-01 14:07         ` T.V Raman
2022-06-01 14:22           ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-01 14:43             ` T.V Raman

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