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

[João Távora]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 5:23 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > Tools that understand the symbolic nature of the Lisp
> > family of languages. For the example you have since,
> > Tools that rely on way or the other really on the
> > 'read' Lisp primitive.
>
> https://github.com/emacsmirror/el-search

Nice prior art. thanks.

> A hammer is a useful tool; it's just not the
> only tool, and for many jobs it's not the best
> tool.  Howling against hammers is, well, as
> dumb as thinking they're useful for everything.

Sure.  I use grep.  I use the hammer.  When I
see something that looks like a nail mostly.

João