Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 13.09.2021 15:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?

I don't understand the question.

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

I think I have explained how changing comments this way breaks useful 
functionality.

> > 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.

References in docstrings ~ references in comments. With the same syntax.

`...' is our docstring syntax for references.