Re: Make apostrophes invisible in Help buffers

[Nick Roberts]

 >     The apostrophes are put in the doc string so that links can be parsed
 >     in the Help buffer, not for the end user.
 > 
 > The apostrophes follow a general GNU convention for indicating symbol
 > names in text.  We have followed that convention for 20 years.
 > So I am not going to say yes to this change.

Its a convention that was made when monochrome text-only terminals like
VT100s were the norm.  My guess is that with the underline, mouse-face
highlighting and help echo, the user will guess that he's looking at a
symbol name... but its your choice.

Nick