From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: scame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>, 46926@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:38:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=8ZEqSVW8VYEoV+pq8n3WRTxdyiWyZxB+F9u=at-XsMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeguu0q0.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:23:51 +0100")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I don't think I agree, but maybe someone else will have an opinion?
>
> I don't have an opinion here, really, but I think the example posted
> without the quotes looked nicer.
Yes, I must agree that it looks far better.
The point of `quotes' is to make these symbols stand out in comparison
to the surrounding text. But the linking face we use is already very
aggressive: not just blue but also underlined. So I think this is by
far already highlighted enough, which means the quotes are superfluous
and should be removed.
Speaking strictly about help-mode, I think removing them is therefore
just sound typography that will make it easier to read the help text.
> On the other hand, since we quote symbols like that all over Emacs,
> removing them just in info mode is perhaps not optimal.
I have no opinion about Info, as there we do not have any linking going
on. IOW, the extra emphasis the `quotes' add is fine in that context.
About the only drawback I see to removing them from help is what you
say: that we lose some consistency as compared to the rest of Emacs.
IMO, this price is well worth paying to get cleaner help buffers.
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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 [this message]
2021-03-13 5:50 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-13 6:08 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-13 7:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-13 7:44 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-13 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-13 7:51 ` scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-13 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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