From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-24.0.92 and backquote Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323747181 14051 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2011 03:33:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 13 04:32:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RaJ6u-0007C6-KL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:32:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RaJ6t-0001PD-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RaJ6q-0001Ow-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RaJ6p-0000PA-HM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:30137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RaJ6p-0000Ot-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:51 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAKTG5k5FxLI7/2dsb2JhbABEDqp7gQaBcgEBBAFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIgbtWaLbQSIMZo0g3xV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,343,1320642000"; d="scan'208";a="152048280" Original-Received: from 69-196-178-59.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.178.59]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 12 Dec 2011 22:32:50 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B0012660D4; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:49 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Nelson H. F. Beebe's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:05:12 -0700 (MST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146682 Archived-At: > I've spent part of today revising ltxmenu.el, and moved the old and > new versions of the backquoted menu definition into separate files > that are loaded according to the value of emacs-version, so as not to > break the code on any currently-installed version of emacs (I have > many such, on more than two dozen flavors of Unix). The "new"-style works at least since Emacs-19.34 (the oldest version I have here installed), so I have a hard time imagining you have an Emacs around that's still running and yet doesn't support the "new"-style of backquotes. Stefan