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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new variable to force new-style backquote interpretation. |
| Date: | Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:40:07 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 |
Philipp Stephani wrote:
Only in Emacs 28, because 26 will still have old-style backquotes only.
Ah, OK, I was turned around then: this variable is for forward-compatibility and not backward. I suggest mentioning in the doc string that setting the variable makes Emacs compatible with planned-for-28 behavior, and that the variable is planned to go away in Emacs 28. (It's a temporary variable, so to speak....)
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