docs: quote command line flags in comments as code

The lone-dash check read MAME's -rompath and -samplepath, QUASI88's
-romdir and RetroBat's -hash and -sp as half a dash glued to a word.
Quoted as code they read as flags. A C loop quoted in romdir.py and a
docstring in test_agnostic_scope no longer read as clause semicolons.

scripts/common.py

@@ -3390,7 +3390,7 @@ def _build_layouts(
             if f.get("bundled") and passed_setting(f):
                 # The copy installed with the emulator sits where the setting
                 # pointed before the launcher moved it: RetroBat passes MAME
-                # -hash bios/mame/hash (Mame64.Generator.cs:172, 177-178), and
+                # `-hash` bios/mame/hash (Mame64.Generator.cs:172, 177-178), and
                 # the hash/ beside mame.exe is no longer read.
                 moved = {k: v for k, v in f.items() if k != "bundled"}
             files.extend(_placed_entry(moved, profile, placed) for placed in places)
@@ -3607,7 +3607,7 @@ def content_layout(
                 for t in tags if t.startswith(CONTENT_FOLDER_PREFIX)
             ) if core in names and where
         })
-        # The folders a passed -rompath replaces the build's own search
+        # The folders a passed `-rompath` replaces the build's own search
         # path with stand for these: libretro MAME hands MAME
         # <system>/mame/bios unless the content's command line names
         # another (retro_init.cpp Set_Path_Option, execute_game_cmd).
@@ -3649,7 +3649,7 @@ def content_layout(
         if f.get("unplaced") != OUTSIDE_BIOS_FOLDER:
             # A set a launcher record placed stays there: EmuDeck's
             # mame.ini rompath is read when Steam ROM Manager starts MAME
-            # with no -rompath (tools/launchers/mame.sh), and ES-DE's
+            # with no `-rompath` (tools/launchers/mame.sh), and ES-DE's
             # commands read the folders they pass.
             out.append(f)
             held = {(f.get("root") or "", f.get("standalone_path") or "")}

scripts/launchers.py

@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ def _bind(
     list already fills (Batocera's bios/openmsx beside bios/Machines), else
     the first of the BIOS tree, else the first a pack can fill. A list that
     already holds the folder the layout's files take without the launcher
-    keeps them there: KNULLI starts MAME with -rompath
+    keeps them there: KNULLI starts MAME with `-rompath`
     <romDirname>;/userdata/bios/mame;/userdata/bios, and the sets at the BIOS
     root stay. A pool standing for the whole layout holds its files
     directly, not its folders (SEARCHED_FILES): MAME reads hash/ and

scripts/romdir.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass
 
 ENTRY_SIZE = 16
 NAME_SIZE = 10
-# for (i = 0; i < 512 * 1024; i++) in every LoadBiosVersion.
+# `for (i = 0; i < 512 * 1024; i++)` in every LoadBiosVersion.
 SEARCH_ENTRIES = 512 * 1024
 ROMVER_SIZE = 14
 EXTINFO_SIZE = 15

scripts/scraper/batocera_launchers.py

@@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ def patched_paths(read: Callable[[str], str], patches: tuple[str, ...] = PATH_PA
 
 
 # Generators whose command line hands the emulator /userdata/bios folders as
-# search paths: MAME's -rompath and -samplepath (mame/mameGenerator.py).
+# search paths: MAME's `-rompath` and `-samplepath` (mame/mameGenerator.py).
 SEARCH_PATH_GENERATORS = ("mame/mameGenerator.py",)