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

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hello,

after having hard time getting the longhand name of a shorthand symbol
at point (with regexp and the local value of read-symbol-shorthands) I
discover it is easy to get this information with:

    (symbol-name (intern-soft (thing-at-point 'symbol)))

Is this the right way to get this information and if so is it
possible to document it?

Thanks.



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-- 
Thierry