GNU bug report logs - #59360
[PATCH] Highlight multiple symbols in single quotes in Common Lisp strings

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From: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Highlight multiple symbols in single quotes in Common Lisp
 strings
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:12:45 +0100

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Severity: wishlist

This is mostly useful for quoting Hyperspec glossary entries.  I only
patched it for Common Lisp to avoid possibly breaking help buffers for
elisp.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59360: [PATCH] Highlight multiple symbols in single quotes in
 Common Lisp strings
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:53:03 -0800

Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Severity: wishlist
>
> This is mostly useful for quoting Hyperspec glossary entries.  I only
> patched it for Common Lisp to avoid possibly breaking help buffers for
> elisp.

For posterity, could you show (or link) an example of such a glossary
entry?

Thanks.

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From: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59360: [PATCH] Highlight multiple symbols in single quotes
 in Common Lisp strings
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:24:24 +0100

> For posterity, could you show (or link) an example of such a glossary
> entry?

Some common examples that come to mind are `pathname designator',
`ordinary lambda list', and `generic function'.  These are glossary
entries so they don't have individual links.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59360: [PATCH] Highlight multiple symbols in single quotes in
 Common Lisp strings
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:24:38 -0800

Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> For posterity, could you show (or link) an example of such a glossary
>> entry?
>
> Some common examples that come to mind are `pathname designator',
> `ordinary lambda list', and `generic function'.  These are glossary
> entries so they don't have individual links.

Thanks.  Would it risk being confusing to highlight them in the same way
as proper symbols, which also would have links?

Do you see any other drawbacks with this change?

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From: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59360: [PATCH] Highlight multiple symbols in single quotes
 in Common Lisp strings
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 13:20:20 +0100

> Thanks.  Would it risk being confusing to highlight them in the same way
> as proper symbols, which also would have links?
I don't believe so, since it is already possible to have multiple
clashing meanings for symbols even without the glossary entry, for
example http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/a_string.htm.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59360: [PATCH] Highlight multiple symbols in single quotes in
 Common Lisp strings
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:58:41 -0800

Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> Thanks.  Would it risk being confusing to highlight them in the same way
>> as proper symbols, which also would have links?
> I don't believe so, since it is already possible to have multiple
> clashing meanings for symbols even without the glossary entry, for
> example http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/a_string.htm.

I would like to install the change, but where are we at with the
copyright assignment?  I think we are above the limit for the number of
contributions that we can accept from you without one, unfortunately.

I see that you discussed that with Lars in Bug#56345 in September.
Has there been any progress with that?

Thanks.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59360-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59360: [PATCH] Highlight multiple symbols in single quotes in
 Common Lisp strings
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:16:29 -0800

Version: 31.1

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Thanks.  Would it risk being confusing to highlight them in the same way
>>> as proper symbols, which also would have links?
>> I don't believe so, since it is already possible to have multiple
>> clashing meanings for symbols even without the glossary entry, for
>> example http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/a_string.htm.
>
> I would like to install the change, but where are we at with the
> copyright assignment?  I think we are above the limit for the number of
> contributions that we can accept from you without one, unfortunately.
>
> I see that you discussed that with Lars in Bug#56345 in September.
> Has there been any progress with that?

The copyright assignment is now done, so I installed this on master as
commit 32700f38fdd.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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