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

[João Távora]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 3:12 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > 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).
>
> Are you thinking about M-/ ?  That already exists, and I'm using it
> all the time, not only in Lisp.

Not only that, but I'd like to underline that C-M-i (completion-at-point)
will do a context-aware search for Elisp which considers _both_ shorthand-
and longhand- versions of possible symbols.  Nothing wrong with M-/ tho,
also use it lots.

João