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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> On a separate note, but related to my misgivings:  If this really is
> mostly about s.el, dash.el and f.el, I think it is problem that this
> is featured so prominently in the ELisp manual.  To my eyes, what we
> have now is basically an implicit recommendation and a statement that
> it is unproblematic for general use.  I believe there is a clear risk
> that users will use this feature in ways that many of us AFAIU (from
> reading this thread) would expressly rather avoid.

Yes, making the manual less enthusiastic about this sounds like a good
idea to me.

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