Subject: Re: bug#49964: 28.0.50; ERC button to docu, again

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:25:10 +0200

Emanuel Berg via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Do
>
>   $ emacs -Q test.el
>
> and type `kill-emacs' and see what happens.

Oh, you mean the convention we use for quoting Lisp symbols?

> It gets buttonized to the help if used in ERC, I think that's
> cool and helpful as well, for example in #emacs.
>
> In the Emacs help tho it gets buttonized/hyperlinked as well
> but converted to (respelled as) ‘kill-emacs‘, even if put as
> `kill-emacs' in a docstring.
>
> That notation, i.e. ‘kill-emacs‘, however does not get
> highlighted/buttonized/hyperlinked in ERC, I don't know if
> that is by intent.

So the request is to have Lisp symbols with "pretty quotes" be
buttonised in erc?

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