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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.