Subject: Re: bug#57250: emacs-lisp-mode not highlighting single characters `k' in comments

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:11:55 -0700

uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> But if the character sequence within tick ` and a single quote ' is a single
> character, the character does not get highlighted.
>
> Example:
>
> ;; Insert `k' for words with initial values.
>
> The character k does not get highlighted.

That's because k here is more likely to be a key than a Lisp symbol.

So I think this is expected.