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#74697
30.0.91; Inconsistent fontificaton with elisp modes
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Reported by: the_wurfkreuz <the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 19:33:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: notabug
Found in version 30.0.91
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #15 received at 74697-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> 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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