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Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when displaying docs

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Message #134 received at 46926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: laszlomail <at> protonmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, rms <at> gnu.org,
 46926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46926: Remove the quotes from highlighted/linked symbols when
 displaying docs
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:44:25 +0200

> Cc: laszlomail <at> protonmail.com, 46926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org,
>  rms <at> gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:41:10 +0200
> 
> But speaking of 'M-o', even if we end up reverting the change because we 
> receive enough evidence of the change being problematic, that wouldn't 
> characterize the approach as bad. It would just reach one of its 
> possible conclusions, as any good scientific experiment should.
> 
> What could reflect on the approach poorly, is if, for example, we follow 
> it, then keep the change because nobody brings up significant problems, 
> and then, after Emacs 28 is released, we find out about some big 
> breakage caused by the change.

I agree: what you describe above is not a failure of the procedure.
The failure is if we are unable to make a decision.  And from what
I've seen we might be there with the M-o issue.  That's why I hope
this one will be different.

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