From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: scame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
Cc: 46926@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:39:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835z1vjvm4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JcBD1BA4Ay0n6ve6SGQf2pHTlOTmdlbIADFlEIYiyfD0HbGQcFCfYXrpH-6K5MORofeeglL3u2yWRIgfApcBAz_M6BoWc0p3eE2I0Uki_fE=@protonmail.com> (message from scame on Sat, 13 Mar 2021 07:51:11 +0000)
> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 07:51:11 +0000
> From: scame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
> Cc: "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>, "46926@debbugs.gnu.org" <46926@debbugs.gnu.org>, "larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>, "stefan@marxist.se" <stefan@marxist.se>
>
> > Since the quotes are present in the original doc strings (and will
> > stay there, for sure), the implementation of your proposal would be to
> > remove them when we generate the "buttons" (a.k.a. "links") for them
> > in the Help buffer. So, if people feel that removing the quotes could
> > be desired by some users, how about making it optional, by default
> > off?
>
> The aim of this bug to make the default epxerience cleaner.
>
> In the first place it is not developers who should decide these things,
> but visual designers. E.g. I guess Gnome has some visual designers who
> create the Gnome look. They can be asked, but I'm pretty sure they
> will say the cleaner look is better for users.
That sounds like "my way or the highway" to me. Not very
constructive, I'm afraid.
Does anyone else here think the compromise I proposed could have some
merit?
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2021-03-04 16:57 bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-04 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 17:50 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-04 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 19:08 ` bug#46926: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-04 20:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-04 21:40 ` bug#46926: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-12 1:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-13 5:50 ` Richard Stallman
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2021-03-13 7:02 ` Stefan Kangas
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2021-03-13 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-03-13 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-13 16:24 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-13 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-13 17:05 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-13 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-15 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-15 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-15 23:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-16 2:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-16 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-16 3:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-16 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-16 13:01 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-16 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-16 16:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-16 23:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-17 6:00 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-17 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 15:53 ` bug#46926: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-16 15:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-16 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-16 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-16 15:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-16 15:49 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 0:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-13 17:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-13 18:27 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-14 6:02 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-04 20:31 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-04 17:58 ` bug#46926: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-04 18:40 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-04 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2021-03-04 20:36 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-06 5:11 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-14 20:36 ` bug#46926: Remove quotes from the highlighted symbols list Aleksandr Petrosyan
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