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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 20852@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20852: 24.3; update-file-autoloads doesn't accept unescaped parenthesis character literal
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 21:18:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv616g4k4i.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkSWZqKLzxbU8vDJZ-ArO8b32NNnduFftDBh2zBf=-JV2A@mail.gmail.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Sun, 21 Jun 2015 12:13:53 +0000")

> If this is generally unsupported, can we then remove it from the doc and

Yes.  Do you happen to know where it's documented?

> have the reader print a warning (or reject it altogether)?

We can't reject it, because I'm pretty sure there's code out there which
uses it.  I'd accept a patch which adds a warning for it,


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-22  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-19 19:22 bug#20852: 24.3; update-file-autoloads doesn't accept unescaped parenthesis character literal Philipp Stephani
2015-06-19 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-21 12:13   ` Philipp Stephani
2015-06-22  1:18     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-06-28 13:12       ` Philipp Stephani
2015-06-30 20:43         ` Philipp Stephani
2015-07-02 15:50           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]             ` <20170501142718.3510-1-phst@google.com>
2017-05-01 17:59               ` bug#20852: [PATCH] Warn about missing backslashes during load Stefan Monnier
2017-05-01 18:41                 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-06 21:14             ` [PATCH] Make `old-style-backquotes' variable internal Philipp
2017-05-07  2:31               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 11:49                 ` Philipp
2017-05-13 10:35                   ` Philipp Stephani

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