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

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Thu 30 Sep 2021 at 18:10, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>   > How do you propose I find all occurrences of jit-lock-functions in the
>   > Emacs Lisp sources, which up to now I've been able to do with find and
>   > grep?
>
> We can have a rule about when it is ok to define symbol-renaming in
> the Emacs sources, just as we have a rule about defining advice in the
> Emacs sources.
>
> This way, you could know about what renamings might exist,
> and would know which symbols might have multiple names
> and what argument to give to grep.

What about cases where grep (or alternatives like rg or ag) are invoked
manually?  Or using a tool like eev and not via some clever Emacs
function which computes the argument automatically?