Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.09.2021 12:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 11:51:55 +0300
> > Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at,
> >   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net
> >
> > On 16.09.2021 07:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > > > > > Your commit broke symbol highlighting in the comments.
> > > > > > > And `this` doesn't?
> > > > > > Yes, it does.  That's why I originally changed it to `this'.
> > > > > yes, everyone seems to do what they like in this respect.
> > > > One is not like the other.
> > > How's that?
> >
> > One is working WRT to coding features, the other is broken.
>
> We aren't talking about code.

As others have attested in this thread, people do not think of code 
comments as simply 'plain text'. Unlike NEWS, ChangeLogs, etc, which 
*have* been the subject of some previous discussion. If people had 
actually brought up comments in Lisp code, it would have been a much 
difficult discussion.

We have used the same markup in Lisp comments as in Lisp docstrings for 
symbol references for ages. With associated benefits in highlighting and 
code completion. Why would we suddenly change that?