Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

>> +;; 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.

Yeah, I'm against changing `foo' to 'foo' in comments.  It's just too
confusing to have a different syntax in the doc strings and in the
comments.

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