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Re: Shorthand variable named "elisp-shorthands" seems wrong


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Shorthand variable named "elisp-shorthands" seems wrong
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:51:17 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I think that "shorthands" is not the most natural term for these.
> Our usual term for this sort of thing is "abbreviation".
>
> I think `symbol-prefix-abbrevs' would be clearer.

I think `symbol-prefix-abbrevs' carries the implication that
`prefix-abbrevs' is some sort of cell in the symbol.

How about `read-prefixes' or `read-prefix-abbrevs'?


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