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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:11:15 +0200

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

The natural place to do that is where we prepare the Help buffer and
generate the cross-links.