From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:35:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33685"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 11 05:35:37 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1otLlQ-0008WU-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 05:35:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otLl1-0005gP-VV; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otLl0-0005g1-Le for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:35:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otLl0-0007Pj-Cx; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:35:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=ciIElhOp6gPkDQMOhNhyVzBKYY96TndK06vfkWMT8dg=; b=Brx9chenYw2Q qnt4kruE+1gjuEcaU/VQKJ1xXUbSYptLx0An1+91qYzsAegczvx0YIWgQKJ6HLO4DdXsjcBPJFNzJ XYL9m+nWGO9AWKKJR/bXno9ki6EyMf7dtS9nu/EkbVlapnJ5GayQs1TYV4lShwRSqtVDJjgKLxuzZ KcH/LpWXXbgDD9UCKOjNR6DbsbarzQV+cdTVsGlNkH8fK8OVKdapXcC2Fj+WpHz9/wnPFrclpRB6q Lw5e4zRcCs+eSKF6rhief+TmLRfxXRy5dhfcwAL0BCtUvo8VRWCC4uaKwGvbfioECXk3rxOC3jTc+ eCCZogq8xUso7hU5+vAqxg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otLl0-0006xR-4d; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:35:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Helmut Eller on Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:16:17 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:299532 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > One thing that was talked about in the past is something like "local > shorthands". I think the idea is that a certain prefix is only active > in a certain region of the text. I think we could do this easily enough using the existing shorthands feature. Would you like to write it? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)