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

From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 13:38:50 +0000

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 1:11 PM Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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.
>

If, by then, the link to the original value of `read-symbol-shorthands` in
the original buffer (where the definition with the docstring was loaded
from) has been severed, then it's not a good place.

If this link still exists, then it's a good place.

João