Editors don't use just acronyms, we also use abbreviations and other markings to indicate what we mean.
Best example:
STET Editor shorthand (and Latin) for "Let it stand." Slang: "Don't make that fucking change; leave it alone."
Here is a wider example of the notation we use:
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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