GNU bug report logs - #74697
30.0.91; Inconsistent fontificaton with elisp modes

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From: the_wurfkreuz <the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 30.0.91; Inconsistent fontificaton with elisp modes
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:32:20 +0000

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In emacs-lisp and lisp-interaction modes when text is surrounded by single quotes or backtick+single quotes in comments or strings, it gets its own font-lock face, as if it were a code symbol:

;; This buffer is for 'text' that is not saved, and for `Lisp' evaluation.
"To create a file, `visit' it with 'C-x C-f' and 'enter' text in its buffer."
This creates unnecessary visual noise as these are just regular quoted words, not code symbols. The text should maintain its parent face (comment face or string face).

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: the_wurfkreuz <the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me>
Cc: 74697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74697: 30.0.91; Inconsistent fontificaton with elisp modes
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:53:21 +0200

tags 74697 notabug
thanks

> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:32:20 +0000
> From:  the_wurfkreuz via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> In emacs-lisp and lisp-interaction modes when text is surrounded by single quotes or backtick+single quotes
> in comments or strings, it gets its own font-lock face, as if it were a code symbol:
> 
> ;; This buffer is for 'text' that is not saved, and for `Lisp' evaluation.
> "To create a file, `visit' it with 'C-x C-f' and 'enter' text in its buffer."
> 
> This creates unnecessary visual noise as these are just regular quoted words, not code symbols. The text
> should maintain its parent face (comment face or string face).

This is a feature, not a bug: such quoted words are considered
references to symbols, and highlighted with the appropriate face.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me
Cc: 74697-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74697: 30.0.91; Inconsistent fontificaton with elisp modes
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:09:06 +0200

> Cc: 74697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:53:21 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> tags 74697 notabug
> thanks
> 
> > Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:32:20 +0000
> > From:  the_wurfkreuz via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> > 
> > In emacs-lisp and lisp-interaction modes when text is surrounded by single quotes or backtick+single quotes
> > in comments or strings, it gets its own font-lock face, as if it were a code symbol:
> > 
> > ;; This buffer is for 'text' that is not saved, and for `Lisp' evaluation.
> > "To create a file, `visit' it with 'C-x C-f' and 'enter' text in its buffer."
> > 
> > This creates unnecessary visual noise as these are just regular quoted words, not code symbols. The text
> > should maintain its parent face (comment face or string face).
> 
> This is a feature, not a bug: such quoted words are considered
> references to symbols, and highlighted with the appropriate face.

No further comments, so I'm now closing this non-bug.

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