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Re: Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorth


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master)
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 08:46:23 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Yes, but if I reach that buffer from a query for s-foo, which was
> in the completions list, and then decide, from there, that I want
> s-bar instead, I'll be confused if it isn't in the completion list.

Yes, shorthands make life a bit more complex.
I don't think there's much we can do about that.

> Right. But they could, legitimately, ask for this to supplant
> the confusion explained above.

No, I think that would make life yet a bit more complex.  Better tell
them to go back to the original buffer before hitting `C-h o` if/when
they want that behavior.


        Stefan




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