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Request for highlighting back-quote/quote pair notation.

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Message #11 received at 13228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#13228: Request for highlighting back-quote/quote pair
 notation.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 09:47:08 +0200

Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>From "info texinfo":
>
>> 14.2 Inserting Quote Characters
>> ===============================
>
>> As explained in the early section on general Texinfo input conventions
>> (*note Conventions::), Texinfo source files use the ASCII character ``'
>> (96 decimal) to produce a left quote (`), and ASCII `'' (39 decimal) to
>> produce a right quote (').  Doubling these input characters (```' and
>> `''') produces double quotes (" and ").  These are the conventions used
>> by TeX.
>
> So `' quoting style is common for info files. I checked it was used for
> function selection in libc and readline info files. Also it was used in GNU
> Make, R, Autotool and other manuals.
>
> So having highlighting for `' in info mode is good thing for Emacs user
> (compare with emacs-lisp-mode, where it was highlighted).

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

I'm not sure I quite understand the request here.  Is it to highlight
`foo' in .texinfo files, or in `Info-mode'?  If it's the latter, I think
we've mostly moved to rendering this as ‘foo’.

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