From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help fix unescaped character literals detected warnings in verilog-mode Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 18:44:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <834lx0hekg.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494110666 13533 195.159.176.226 (6 May 2017 22:44:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 22:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 07 00:44:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d78R4-0003QC-Vq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 00:44:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d78R9-0005jl-4Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 May 2017 18:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35061) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d78R0-0005je-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 May 2017 18:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d78Qz-0004v5-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 May 2017 18:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d78Qx-0004uT-KW; Sat, 06 May 2017 18:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1d78Qx-0000TQ-6l; Sat, 06 May 2017 18:44:15 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 05 May 2017 16:33:32 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214638 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > verilog-mode.el:14003:1:Warning: unescaped character literals ; detected! > Now that I see it, the error message should say ?; rather than ; > since some people may not immediately know what is a character literal > in this context. Our convention for messages that mention some text is to put `...' around that text. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.