From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:11:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6547"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 46926@debbugs.gnu.org To: scame Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 06 06:12:17 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPEe-0001bZ-VX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 06:12:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34374 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPEe-0005RX-1s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPEQ-0005PW-I1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:12:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52563) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPEQ-0007kd-9x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:12:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPEQ-0001Es-4z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:12:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 05:12:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46926 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46926-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46926.16150074704700 (code B ref 46926); Sat, 06 Mar 2021 05:12:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46926) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Mar 2021 05:11:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35876 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPDa-0001Dj-DM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:11:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40930) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPDX-0001DW-RR for 46926@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60753) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPDS-00075R-AH; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lIPDR-0000et-9U; Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:11:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:201592 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Help windows and Info show quoted symbols linked/highlighted. The quotes > are added to denote the symbol in source docs, but when the symbol is > linked/highlighted then the symbol is already processed for display and > emphasised, so there is no need for displaying the quotes. Sometimes there is. > Unnecessary characters make the text harder to the read, so the quotes > should be hidden from display in docs. You're proposing to achieve a minor benefit by risking confusion. This is a bad sort of bet. To be sure that no significant serious confusion would result would require a careful study of all the sorts of situations that can occur. In the absence of that, I say no. In fact, I know of a situation that would become unclear: @code{FOO} would become indistinguishable from @var{foo}. Why would capital letters appear in @code{}? For shell variables with upper-case names. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)