From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: scame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46926: [External] : bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:40:13 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: scame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35778"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "46926@debbugs.gnu.org" <46926@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 04 19:41:28 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 1lHsue-0009Dw-HF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:41:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49290 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHsud-0001S8-Eb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHsuI-0001Pu-2R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48661) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHsuE-00069G-8O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:41:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lHsuE-0004LS-7G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:41:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: scame Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:41:02 +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=B46926.161488322916655 (code B ref 46926); Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:41:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46926) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Mar 2021 18:40:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60207 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lHsth-0004KZ-4u for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:40:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-40137.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.137]:48288) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lHstd-0004KJ-33 for 46926@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:40:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1614883218; bh=IBV/qQvd9bvvZIsLGh2igSPF7sMokyi2Bz5Ef5pVbLg=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=poalb5ko3O7f+oSXk0Z7BbLISloQu+nF+itU22MmFtv0sfkIBzhEpFg9Dqte3879K esCKYfqBydAH1EJRFXcplvnie5rGOzDMJ2gRDksBim8SVmcIdGlZH3p00MqO/0m6Jx XOpP7sA8Yp1q5qVYMElFRfBS+M20P/IYh9BeTpA0= In-Reply-To: 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" X-ACL-Warn: , scame Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:201438 Archived-At: > > 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. I meant it could be done with a face, so obviously a face can be customized. > > 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 we consider Help buffers they usually not that large that you have to search for symbols in them. Check out this Help window. It is more tidy and readable without the unnecessary quotes: https://i.imgur.com/xiHv8lr.png