Re: old-style backquotes warnings

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Why doesn't this warning follow the format of other warnings emitted
>> > by the byte compiler?
>> 
>> >     Compiling progmodes/cc-subword.el
>> >     !! File cc-vars.el uses old-style backquotes !!
>> 
>> Probably because I don't know what's the normal format.

> I hope this is a joke (though it's way too far from April 1st),
> because I think you wrote the code that produces the normal format,
> e.g.:

>   In end of data:
>   net/browse-url.el:1555:1:Warning: the following functions are not known to 
> be
>       defined: copy-seq, w3-fetch-other-window, w3-fetch, case, otherwise

> In other words a format that `next-error' can parse.

Oh sorry, now I see it: the warning you talk about is the one from Fload (a
call to Fmessage), not the one from the byte-compiler, which is why it
doesn't follow the byte-compiler's format.


        Stefan