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bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displa


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:19:09 +0200

> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:57:24 +0000
> From:  scame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Help windows and Info show quoted symbols linked/highlighted.

Help buffers do, but where did you see that in Info?  Can you show an
example?

> 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.

I disagree.  The quotes indicate that it's a symbol, the link face
indicates that we have more information about that symbol elsewhere.
These are two orthogonal indications, so they complete each other, not
contradict.





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