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RTFM = Read the f***ing manual

I can say to someone "please RTFM" which would mean "please Read the f***ing manual"

How do I say it in short form when I want to say I have done it?

Long: "After Reading the f`***ing manual, I understood the concept"

Short: "After RTFMing, I understood the concept" Or "After RingTFM, I understood the concept"?

I mean to text, not say it aloud.

Edit-

From my intuition, I think the word RTFM (a group of words) acts a verb in the combo. And that makes sense to add ing after the word. RTFMing.

Some elaboration would be appreciated if that seems a good point.

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    This is extremely colloquial and falls outside the rules of formal English, but a quick google search shows that "RTFMing" is about 30 times as frequent as "RingTFM" on the internet, though both exist. I would personally say "RTFMing", just like I would (informally) say "RSVPing". – Canadian Yankee Dec 09 '21 at 15:22
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    "I did RTFM, and now I understand it." or "I read TFM, and now I got it." – Jeff Zeitlin Dec 09 '21 at 15:26
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    As I said, "this falls outside the rules". But familiar fixed abbreviations often tend to be treated more like a single word than as their actual expanded versions because people have gotten used to thinking of it as a single concept. "LOLing" is getting common enough that it's sneaking into informal dictionaries. Eventually, the original abbreviation can be forgotten altogether (as with "laser" or "scuba" and arguably "RSVP", since I'll bet a large fraction of people who use that last one don't know what it expands to). – Canadian Yankee Dec 09 '21 at 15:35

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