bug#50959: 28.0.50; Shorthand symbols are unknown to Emacs

[João Távora]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>,  50959@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 12:02:30 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> Loading the new sl.el confirmed that Emacs didn't recognise the
>> >> shorthand symbols generally.
>> >
>> > João, if this problem still exists after your changes yesterday, could
>> > you please look into it?  TIA.
>> 
>> It's not after my changes from yesterday, no.  This is by design.  Emacs
>> doesn't recognize the shorthands symbols generally (if "generally" is to
>> mean "globally") because shorthands _don't_ exist in the global obarray.
>> They exist in the buffer.
>
> Would it be possible to see if the current buffer (from which the
> minibuffer was entered) has shorthands, and if so, apply them to
> minibuffer input?

Yes, much like it is done with C-M-i, basically.

João