From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: scame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, larsi@gnus.org, 46926@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 01:02:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lLJpY-0000Zc-Ln@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
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> > The purpose of quotes in Texinfo output is to make semantic
> > distinctions. In other words, to show what kind of role that text
> > plays in the program being documented.
> In the main body of the Help text only symbols are linked AFAIK. Is
> that right?
> So the quotes don't convey any extra meaning and the symbols are linked,
> so they can be clicked to instantly see their documentation. The quotes
> are just extra noise in the rendered output, breaking the visual flow of
> the text unnecessarily.
Can you please tell me how I can look at an instance of what you mean?
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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
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
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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 [this message]
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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