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26; (emacs) `Highlight Interactively'

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#31125: closed (Re: bug#31125: 26; (emacs) `Highlight
 Interactively')
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 02:29:02 +0000

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Your bug report

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

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 31125 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 31125-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31125: 26; (emacs) `Highlight Interactively'
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 05:28:23 +0300

> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:41:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 31125 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > 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.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26; (emacs) `Highlight Interactively'
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:45:54 -0700 (PDT)

In the Emacs manual, `i symbol TAB' shows `Highlight Interactively' as a
place where symbols are mentioned.  They are, via
`highlight-symbol-at-point'.  This perhaps the only place in the Emacs
manual where symbols are mentioned.

1. It seems (?), by tracking backward through `highlight-symbol-at-point'
and then (thing-at-point 'symbol), that `highlight-symbol-at-point' is
about highlighting Lisp symbols, not text that has characters with
symbol-constituent syntax.  If so, it would be helpful for the doc of
`highlight-symbol*' to specifically say "Lisp symbol".

2. Assuming that it is in fact about Lisp symbols, please consider
adding a link in (emacs) `Highlight Interactively' to (elisp) `Symbols',
so readers of the Emacs manual can more easily discover something about
Lisp symbols.



In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2018-04-10
Repository revision: c267421647510319d2a70554e42f0d1c394dba0a
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
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 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''

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