Subject: Re: bug#31125: 26; (emacs) `Highlight Interactively'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 05:28:23 +0300

> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:41:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > No, it isn't only about Lisp.  I just tried this command in a buffer
> > whose major mode is C, and it works there as I'd expect.
> > Why did you decide that it was only about Lisp symbols?
> 
> My bad. You can close this bug.

Done.

> (It does somehow seem to bad that someone can read the
> entire Emacs manual without knowing anything about
> Lisp symbols, including that there is such a critter.)

Actually, "Symbol Search", which is where you get if you select
"symbol search" from the completion list popped up by "i search TAB",
does try to tell what is a symbol in language-independent terms.