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Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:26:14 +0300

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:51:32 +0300
> 
> > We decided to use this style in plain-text documentation long ago.
> 
> IME code comments are not the same as plain-text documentation.

Then what does?  The only place where we must leave `..' alone is in
doc strings, everything else is fair play.

> Aside from highlighting, we have other code that relies on unambiguous 
> markup. Emacs Lisp completion code also enters "symbol completion" mode 
> (so to speak) after you type '`', allowing one to more easily input an 
> existing symbol.

I didn't say anything about completion text.

> > Comments, NEWS, PROBLEMS, DEBUG, commit log messages (thus the
> > generated ChangeLog files), and any other form of plain-text
> > documentation.
> 
> Having docstring markup in plain comments is fairly common across 
> languages, I think.

Again, I don't see how this is relevant to the issue at hand.



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