bug#46926: Remove quotes from the highlighted symbols list

[Aleksandr Petrosyan]

Dear all, 

UI designer from KDE/Qt/Maui. 

I agree that there are orthogonal design decisions at play here: quotes 
indicate that the object is a symbol. Then the link face indicates that it is 
also something that can be expanded upon. However, the quotes, while useful for 
“someone in the know”, are distracting in text. 

My preferred solution, would be to use a code face, specifically for symbols 
and highlight the symbol such that it appears as every other symbol does in 
emacs lisp. One can inherit the monospace font from GTK to distinguish from 
documentation text. The link... it can be anything: it could be the 
documentation for the symbol, or the file which it’s defined in. A user needs 
to know *exactly* what’s going to happen if they click, so if it’s going to 
visit e.g. Python.el, and not the documentation of what Python.el is part of, 
it’s better to say explicitly “visit elisp file”. A button can serve better, 
but emacs has... ugly buttons and doesn’t use them very consistently, so a link 
is fine. 


Sincerely 
Aleksandr Petrosyan