Subject: bug#50959: 28.0.50; Shorthand symbols are unknown to Emacs

From: Phil Sainty <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 01:37:09 +1300

On 2021-10-03 01:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Let me translate: is "C-h" command the only use case you have in mind
> where you saw a problem with shorthands?  If there are others, and
> they involve Emacs's internal functionalities (as opposed to, say,
> searching with Grep or some other text-oriented tool), please describe
> them.

I think it's literally anything that hasn't has custom support added
as part of the shorthands feature?

E.g.:

* describe-function|-variable|-face|-symbol
* apropos|-command|-variable|-user-option|-symbol
* customize-apropos|-face|-variable|-option
* info-lookup-symbol
* execute-extended-command
* anything using read-command|-variable|-face-name
* anything using these interactive codes:

a -- Function name: symbol with a function definition.
C -- Command name: symbol with interactive function definition.
      This skips events that are integers or symbols.
S -- Any symbol.
v -- Variable name: symbol that is ‘custom-variable-p’.

etc, etc...

Basically everything?

-Phil