From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Cross Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6521: 23.2; Elisp Manual Ommission Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:39:33 +1000 (EST) Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <20100701.173933.520277347.tcross@rapttech.com.au> References: <87iq5497b7.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> Reply-To: tcross@rapttech.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277972374 2202 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2010 08:19:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6521@debbugs.gnu.org To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 10:19:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUEzY-00016k-EW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:19:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55400 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUEzX-0000Cu-8B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:19:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34427 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUEiV-0001YA-W1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUEgD-0003F5-FS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:59:31 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUEgD-0003Ey-Dx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUEYz-00006n-Tw; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:52:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Tim Cross Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:52:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6521 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6521-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6521.1277970718411 (code B ref 6521); Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6521) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Jul 2010 07:51:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUEYv-00006a-PC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.129]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUEN2-0008TW-Hd for 6521@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:39:42 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArEGAE3iK0x5LJBO/2dsb2JhbACTK4w3cr5WhSUE Original-Received: from ppp121-44-144-78.lns20.syd7.internode.on.net (HELO localhost) ([121.44.144.78]) by ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 01 Jul 2010 17:09:35 +0930 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 7.0.50 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:51:56 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:52:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:38166 Archived-At: From: Stefan Monnier Subject: Re: bug#6521: 23.2; Elisp Manual Ommission Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:46:39 +0200 >> 3. This is likely to become a bigger issue now that emacs 24 is >> changing to assume a backquote with a space following it is > ^^^ > You mean: out > right? > yep, I meant without a space. >> modern style. I just encountered code which failed to compile >> due to this. When wanting to clarify my understanding, I found >> nothing relevant in the manual. > > Could you send it along, so we could see what it looks like (to better > assess whether it means we have a serious problem, or if it's just > bad luck). > The code which failed to compile was BBDB as bundled with Debian testing. Do you want me to send the error message that was generated? (note that the code still compiles with emacs23). Tim