From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: finding old-style-backquote
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:23:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3axhrwm9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f230850709140739i6f55eb42t42554f7dafd31f23@mail.gmail.com> (dhruva's message of "Fri\, 14 Sep 2007 20\:09\:49 +0530")
> On 9/14/07, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> In any case C-s (` is not that hard to type, is it?
> (if (boundp '*def-font)
> (progn
> (if (boundp 'default-frame-plist)
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-plist '(font ,*def-font)))
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . ,*def-font))))
> In the above expression, I get a warning that it uses old style
> backquote. I am not able to catch it. Looking for identifying the
> culprit.
Buggy code: your new-style unquotes (i.e. ",*def-font") are not
inside backquotes so they will not be evaluated and your add-to-list will
hence not do what you intended.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-14 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 7:51 finding old-style-backquote dhruva
2007-09-14 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-14 14:39 ` dhruva
2007-09-14 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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