Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages

[João Távora]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 11:41 AM Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

On 14.11.2022 08:33, João Távora wrote:
>>> believe it was reasonably low).  But you're right, the benefits of
>>> shorthands so far are just programmer convenience for libraries outside
>>> of Emacs.  I've enjoyed using them, and I would guess a small number of
>>> programmers are also taking advantage of them them in some side
>>> projects, judging from a quick GitHub code search.
>> My own search on GitHub has yielded nothing so far.
> I searched for 'read-symbol-shorthands' and turned up hits like this
>
> https://github.com/include-yy/yyorg-bookmark/blob/47602869ad19853957cddfe01a81a04a9e3bda1c/yyorg-bookmark.el
> https://github.com/mm--/dot-emacs/blob/2387d914a93fbd72b54e389a030b5dd0459a1c3b/elisp/jmm-notmuch-stuff.el
> https://github.com/abgruszecki/dotfiles/blob/ba6763d0eade0f62ecc543e9a46501241aa88138/spacemacs/.spacemacs.d/bespoke.el
> https://github.com/mm--/dot-emacs/blob/3ae1274e9de1641c6338a98b9659ce69477fbd0b/elisp/jmm-inkscape.el
> https://github.com/ilmotta/dotemacs/blob/a6ecf9b415468b023ac070f958a084021c4db398/lisp/lib-media.el
>
> along with my beardbolt.el library.  I don't know what you were
> searching for.

Searched for exact same thing. Got pages and pages of hits in different
forks of the Emacs repo.

Yes, Github code search is very poor, but I think it's the best we have

to judge what is out there.