Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi Eli,

On 12.09.2021 19:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> -;; `eval' is hence the core of the culprit.  It's used on:
> +;; 'eval' is hence the core of the culprit.  It's used on:
>
> -;; encouraged to use `lisp-data-mode' instead.
> +;; encouraged to use 'lisp-data-mode' instead.
>
> -;; The time- functions below translate nil to `current-time' and
> -;; accept an integer as of Emacs 25.  `decode-time' and
> -;; `format-time-string' accept nil on Emacs 24 but don't accept an
> +;; The time- functions below translate nil to 'current-time' and
> +;; accept an integer as of Emacs 25.  'decode-time' and
> +;; 'format-time-string' accept nil on Emacs 24 but don't accept an

Is this a good idea?

I'm not sure we ever agreed to standardize on straight quotes in Lisp 
comments (as opposed to plain text files like NEWS).

More importantly, the symbol references inside `...' are font-locked 
with font-lock-constant-face, and references inside '...' do not.