Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/28/2015 08:52 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> For example, I've seen uses of ⸢foo⸥ for marking up source code
> snippets.  That seems pretty unambiguous (although you can never be
> sure), and as long you can type it easily and display it however suits
> you best, it's as good as anything else.

If we're prepared to change the markup radically, it would be better to 
use something like a tilde character, which is both ASCII and very rare 
in our docstrings.

> BTW: On a related note: I don't get why *Help* buffers display quotes at
> all when they are already displayed with a face that makes them
> distinguishable from "normal" text and are clickable.

Not the same thing. We only linkify the names of already-loaded (or 
autoloaded) functions and variables.

Whereas we also use the quotes for other cases, like key sequences (`C-h 
k') and arbitrary `symbols' (for example when describing possible values 
of a variable or a function argument).