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

[João Távora]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 11:38 PM Richard Stallman <rms@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).
>
> I think #2 might be a good idea, but #1 would lead to horrible
> confusion.  If the screen does not match the buffer, that is chaos.

#2 already exists.  It is C-M-i (aka M-x completion-at-point).

João