[erlang-bugs] The latest Emacs from CVS doesn't like the backuotes from erlang.el

[Robert Virding]

I reasoned that *sometime* people have to upgrade emacs and we can't support
to many old versions, after all Emacs 19.29 is not new. :-) Of course there
is no practical difference in doing the expansions "by hand" or leaving it
to emacs as the macros are so simple.

Robert

2008/10/17 Balint Reczey <Balint.Reczey@REDACTED>

> Hi,
> My original intention was the same, but the new style backqoutes was
> introduced in Emacs 19.29,
> ( http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Backquote.html )
> and erlang.el contains compatibility workarounds for Emacs 18:
>
> ;;; Avoid errors while compiling this file.
>
> ;; `eval-when-compile' is not defined in Emacs 18.  We define it as a
> ;; no-op.
> (or (fboundp 'eval-when-compile)
>    (defmacro eval-when-compile (&rest rest) nil))
>
> Replacing the old style backquotes whith new style ones would break
> compatibility with Emacs 18, so i just expanded them.
>
> Regards,
> Balint
>
>
> 2008. 10. 16, csütörtök keltezéssel 22.01-kor Robert Virding ezt írta:
> > This fix just expands the backquote/unquote forms by hand. I have here
> > a better fix (I think) which uses the "new" backquote style. This has
> > been around a long while, and is compatible with Common Lisp
> > backquote. We'll see if it makes it through, I have also included the
> > file.
> >
> > Compiling erlang.el with Emacs 22.1 also gives some obsolete
> > functions, but they seem to be for this version of Emacs.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > *** erlang.el.orig    Thu Oct 16 21:33:08 2008
> > --- erlang.el    Thu Oct 16 21:36:45 2008
> > ***************
> > *** 1891,1895 ****
> >         "(unless CONDITION BODY...): If CONDITION is false, do BODY,
> > else return nil."
> > !       (` (if (, condition)
> > !          nil
> > !        (,@ body)))))
> >
> > --- 1891,1895 ----
> >         "(unless CONDITION BODY...): If CONDITION is false, do BODY,
> > else return nil."
> > !       `(if ,condition
> > !        nil
> > !      ,@REDACTED)))
> >
> > ***************
> > *** 1898,1902 ****
> >         "(when CONDITION BODY...): If CONDITION is true, do BODY, else
> > return nil."
> > !       (` (if (, condition)
> > !          (progn (,@ body))
> > !        nil))))
> >
> > --- 1898,1902 ----
> >         "(when CONDITION BODY...): If CONDITION is true, do BODY, else
> > return nil."
> > !       `(if ,condition
> > !        (progn ,@REDACTED)
> > !      nil)))
> >
> > ***************
> > *** 1905,1907 ****
> >         "Return the character in the current buffer just before POS."
> > !       (` (char-after (1- (or (, pos) (point)))))))
> >
> > --- 1905,1907 ----
> >         "Return the character in the current buffer just before POS."
> > !       `(char-after (1- (or ,pos (point))))))
> >
> >
> > 2008/10/16 Balint Reczey <Balint.Reczey@REDACTED>
> >         Hi,
> >         I tried to submit the patch to erlang-bugs several times, but
> >         somehow it
> >         did not get through the spam filter/listadmin. :-(
> >
> >         You can find the patch here:
> >         http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494823
> >
> >         Regards,
> >         Balint
> >
> >         2008. 10. 16, csütörtök keltezéssel 09.12-kor Sergey A. ezt
> >         írta:
> >
> >         > Hello.
> >         >
> >         > The latest Emacs from CVS doesn't like the backuotes from
> >         erlang.el
> >         > --
> >         >
> >         > When I open any *.erl file in my emacs then the following
> >         warning
> >         > message is shown:
> >         >
> >         > "Loading `erlang': old-style backquotes detected!"
> >         >
> >         > I know this bug is of little importance, but maybe there is
> >         an easy
> >         > way to modify the erlang.el in such a way that all
> >         backquotes become
> >         > correct.
> >         >
> >         > Unfortunately, I have not got working knowledge of Lisp and
> >         don't know
> >         > what "backquotes" are :(
> >         >
> >         > I use erlang.el coming with Erlang R12B.3 and the latest
> >         emacs from
> >         > CVS (v23.0.60.1).
> >         >
> >         > Thanks.
> >         >
> >         > --
> >         > Sergey
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