[debbugs-tracker] bug#31125: closed (26; (emacs) `Highlight Interactively')

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> 26; (emacs) `Highlight Interactively'
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> Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
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> In the Emacs manual, `i symbol TAB' shows `Highlight Interactively' as a
> place where symbols are mentioned.  They are, via
> `highlight-symbol-at-point'.  This perhaps the only place in the Emacs
> manual where symbols are mentioned.
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> 1. It seems (?), by tracking backward through `highlight-symbol-at-point'
> and then (thing-at-point 'symbol), that `highlight-symbol-at-point' is
> about highlighting Lisp symbols, not text that has characters with
> symbol-constituent syntax.  If so, it would be helpful for the doc of
> `highlight-symbol*' to specifically say "Lisp symbol".
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> 2. Assuming that it is in fact about Lisp symbols, please consider
> adding a link in (emacs) `Highlight Interactively' to (elisp) `Symbols',
> so readers of the Emacs manual can more easily discover something about
> Lisp symbols.
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> In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
>  of 2018-04-10
> Repository revision: c267421647510319d2a70554e42f0d1c394dba0a
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
> Configured using:
>  `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
>  --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
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> Re: bug#31125: 26; (emacs) `Highlight Interactively'
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> > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:41:09 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
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> > > No, it isn't only about Lisp.  I just tried this command in a buffer
> > > whose major mode is C, and it works there as I'd expect.
> > > Why did you decide that it was only about Lisp symbols?
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> > My bad. You can close this bug.
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> Done.
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> > (It does somehow seem to bad that someone can read the
> > entire Emacs manual without knowing anything about
> > Lisp symbols, including that there is such a critter.)
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> Actually, "Symbol Search", which is where you get if you select
> "symbol search" from the completion list popped up by "i search TAB",
> does try to tell what is a symbol in language-independent terms.
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