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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:55:47 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:14:56 -0400
> 
>   > > Again, Shorthands are buffer-local textual indirections to symbols.  They
>   > > are not the symbol.  This will never change (not with Shorthands): so including
>   > > shorthands in a list of symbols is misguided.  Displaying them in
>   > > lists of fragments of
>   > > text to be completed in the buffer is not.
> 
>   > I think this is unnecessarily radical POV, and one that will cause
>   > complaints.
> 
> It seems valid to me _in principle_, but can you think of specific
> cases that might cause complaints?

I described them: when the user sees an identifier in the buffer, but
cannot call up Help for it unless point is on that identifier.