Subject: bug#59082: 28.2; Undocumented `intern-soft` feature with shorthands symbols

From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 06:39:04 +0000

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 3:13 AM Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Maybe we need a construct to use in doc strings
> that requests shorthands processing on a part of the doc string.
> This would have to happen at read time, when the doc string is read,
> so that the proper shorthands are in effect there.

Correct, but this "read time" is "docstring read time", which I don't think
is technically the same as "Lisp read time".

And I also agree that maybe we don't "need" this urgently, for s.el
or at all. But it would be a nice-to-have, especially if it's easy to
implement.

João