Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[Michael Heerdegen]

David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:

> First test of it suggests I need to rethink my .emacs.  I'm getting
> warnings about package 'autoload' being deprecated

That's expected: "NEWS.29":

| ** The autoload.el library is now obsolete.
| It is superseded by the new loaddefs-gen.el library.

I had gotten that warning, too, but I don't recall what I did to get rid
of it.

> as well as a ton of warnings of "free variable"

These are likely errors (often typos).

> and "docstring".

The compiler also checks some stuff in docstrings.  I guess you are
seeing quoting related messages: since quote characters are changed to
these fancy Unicode quotes in *Help* now, you must quote quotes
specially in code examples (using "\\=") .  The compiler detects those
quotes that are obviously not part of a `' pair.


Michael.