From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: scame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>,
"46926@debbugs.gnu.org" <46926@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#46926: [External] : bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 17:58:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB4474EA18CE784D20A20625FEF3979@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
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> 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.
>
> Unnecessary characters make the text harder to the read, so the quotes
> should be hidden from display in docs. (Can characters be hidden with a
> face?)
No. Please do not do this.
1. Users can turn off such highlighting. They still need
to be able to easily see such things. The things need
to stand out.
2. Users need to be able to search for such things, and
one way to do that is to include the quotes, whether
with a regexp or a plain-text pattern.
If you personally don't want to see the quotes, then
define some code that hides them.
Emacs itself could optionally have a command/mode to
hide them. But I, personally, am not in favor of that.
Likewise, for hiding <...>, "...", '...', or any other
such envelopes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 17:58 UTC|newest]
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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
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 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-03-04 18:40 ` bug#46926: [External] : " 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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