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Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation? |
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Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:15:41 +0900 |
John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> writes:
>> ...the usefulness of balanced delimiters...
>
> Useful how?
For instance, they can be used by a program invoking the compiler
(emacs, an IDE, etc) do highlighting of the enclosed text. The use of `
to mark the start of such sequences is particularly useful because it's
otherwise rarely used.
-Miles
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Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?, Richard Kettlewell, 2011/02/08