Subject: bug#74697: 30.0.91; Inconsistent fontificaton with elisp modes

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
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" <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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.