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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>,
>  psainty@orcon.net.nz,  acm@muc.de, rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:58:55 -0400
> 
> >> An implementation of this idea is awaiting comments over at bug#50959.
> > I think you should install that.
> 
> I'm not sure if he may be referring to another patch (I haven't checked
> the whole thread), but the patch I saw in there implements it with an
> ad-hoc `completion-style`.
> 
> I consider this as an abuse of the notion of completion style (which
> are supposed to be orthogonal to the actual completion data), so I'd
> strongly recommend not to use this patch.

You'd have to convince me why it's abuse, because I'm not convinced
yet.