Re: Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master)

[João Távora]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 1:46 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Yes, but if I reach that buffer from a query for s-foo, which was
> in the completions list, and then decide, from there, that I want
> s-bar instead, I'll be confused if it isn't in the completion list.

Yes, shorthands make life a bit more complex.
I don't think there's much we can do about that.

We can _not_ list shorthands in lists of symbols ;-)

Taking SLIME/SLY's cue at that, where people actually use

these things and they aren't all that complex.

João