You obviously don't use backquote much I use backquote pretty heavily, but I find typing "``" to get a literal backquote in the terminal to be much easier (and

You obviously don't use backquote much I use backquote pretty heavily, but I find typing "``" to get a literal backquote in the terminal to be much easier (and less stressful on my hands on modern PC keyboards) than "C-a a" to get a literal Control-A. YMMV.