For as long as I can remember, I have wanted the minibuffer history to

strip the eval-expression wrapper around expressions that I enter by

invoking eval-expression with M-:.  I want this because the wrapper

adds a lot of visual noise when searching for a specific expression and

makes it much harder to edit the expression and get trailing parentheses right.

So if I enter:

  M-: (/ 1.0 9) RET

then C-x ESC ESC shows me:

  (eval-expression (quote (/ 1.0 9)) nil nil 127)

but I want to see just the expression that I want to reuse or edit:

  (/ 1.0 9)

This small patch against Emacs 27.0.50  gives me that; it does the same

removal for commands already in the history if you load the change in

the middle of an Emacs session.  Please consider adding it to Emacs; it is already improving my productivity.

Bob