Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?

[Miles Bader]

John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> writes:
>> ...the usefulness of balanced delimiters...
>
> Useful how?

For instance, they can be used by a program invoking the compiler
(emacs, an IDE, etc) do highlighting of the enclosed text.  The use of `
to mark the start of such sequences is particularly useful because it's
otherwise rarely used.

-Miles

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