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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > 2. The shorthands from the buffer where the minibuffer was entered are
  >    _not_ in the completions list, but typing one of them interns the
  >    symbol with those shorthands present, so you get the desired result.
  >    This would fix Phil's visually-copy-and-type scenario.

Would someone please give an explained example to make this concretely clear?

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