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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > For example, I've seen uses of ⸢foo⸥ for marking up source code
  > snippets.

Those display as diamond shapes on my Linux console.

  > 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 all terminals can display the different face.
On those that can, your point may be valid.


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