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

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Thu 30 Sep 2021 at 13:41, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 12:46 Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> wrote:
>> > but it's the wrong tool.
>> And what is/what are the "right" tool(s) for the above use case?
> In contrast, in some common lisp IDEs you have such tools and expose this
> database. Xref in Emacs was originally derived from work of a Common Lisp
> programmer, which created the amazing SLIME, which you may have heard of.
> SLIME (and my fork of it Sly) are indeed able to use these databases.
>
> André's comment is very accurate. In SLIME, one eats Lisp with a spoon, not
> a fork.
  
Except it does not remove the need for grep.
It misses a lot of things, you cannot rely on it completely.
It needs the lisp code loaded and compiled sucessfully.
Slime + Common Lisp are great but not perfect.
unique and non-stupid names like "s" => perfect grep and web search