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

[Gregory Heytings]

> Instead, we would need two things:
>
> 1. A way of displaying long symbols in the desired short form, such that 
> the buffer contains the actual symbol, but the user sees the short 
> symbol (i.e. some kind of replacing display).
>
> 2. Something analogous to abbrev which recognises when someone starts 
> typing a symbol with one of the configured short prefixes, and expands 
> it to be the full name (but per (1) visually displayed as the short form 
> that they typed).

Not that this already exists (and has existed for years), it's the 
"nameless.el" library.