From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31094: 25.2: Feature Reuqest: apropos-value: limit scope [CODE INCLUDED] Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:06:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87zgnkk1r9.fsf@web.de> References: <20180408073916.d5lsceul3gpj34l3@E15-2016.optimum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8535"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 31094@debbugs.gnu.org To: Boruch Baum Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 25 03:11:06 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1nCBIX-00023u-O9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:06:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20180408073916.d5lsceul3gpj34l3@E15-2016.optimum.net> (Boruch Baum's message of "Sun, 8 Apr 2018 03:39:16 -0400") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:WmhVgcgh+BFBFQGo0tjQ/Bv0OFWLpJruZbfvOTUHrETQeJ2pCHo mLx3N2LB3uYacEc9v93Kz8NEAdYf0IpczjzTyrAU9LE0cZBQFoNCAua8AIzSs2Wbve+CAra 7Z7PF1VJZjNivE3yOXElLQ574V54/xYfQyq4k6ML9CgxA3GcXTC183C3xwRTgk9iHdKNei3 OcCnyWuOyGHhXnU3ZHBHQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:dJT/i4scFWA=:ep9uQ1dCYQ5aQFl+l+nZs7 mKj/63KMyvG8KYSjUphHAomkho5UA2GsSO/uLwOZyqXM1vrs3dMiof7QIarGdpbhHLGwNBl6V 6ErVH3zN5hjs5UkVXjv8penzS6WrTD+CpUhFKnhqBPfj1+LsFDVO5Ekrz3gH+JhrVBThwO/wA CjmNR877sYfVf0I6YNNXLhteCqfr4AMG6mm9gMiV94whRM/hh1/JxCtGEGUqtT/Rdut46EIkf nxsb8pYNV1WipGWpqOf6LUwm9JWnWSsh6rVf0t3RWhykakKEWk5P6GyWIGI32AbMqDdC1VE72 d694c/EEL1P6cO7kK0sUd2ra2UOGbLQfpvzO3AyJX0/o+0uLI372LuKrQK20/IOKfZA9bbFQI kuOhaNvEybQy7tDKNc1ZVRT5GXWK7P2m6M44GKVeMVJl7JSRcft1wPAmLIESulw9IXUP9eKZk ccWFaKQU3hq4GXFDGUgeVu4IGLWlqkIyI5G+xnbaM6Qzhg9vOcrV3/PE9BTKl8a1c9DgP7vVQ dvQT+eMzLOgKENFew+cuTTEUSs2OB/uly5ZMfneYZSeCBmn/WGGWPih80RGNLwmuHPJd4Wqz7 dyW8Wq95hrtqDDYidi+EMU1l/4Avnj6KDuOixUJ4y9P+k03vT6JYgWRN3aiLvKjU0mVckfyjS RY96zDJH82g9IFf0AuxbEIpao0j2x/Fl43eq/qOJm+jBPK8Y3ugmSS64IoLHbMWZwvkbN59u+ OLu5Nc2kq0R9+R3N6vuhboEpdpxr2YR+h0fo0WIv1AkLEAXo1FY+6grZwou3KzQ1WqPuLYkF X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:225139 Archived-At: Boruch Baum writes: > Some of this can be reduced when considegring that in most cases, I know > in advance that a value will be present in some very commonly used huge > variables, that won't be of use to me (eg. kill-ring, > minibuffer-history). If you are interested in alternative approaches: In my config I have added a query for a maximal length of the (printed) value. 0 means "use any", but a positive value filters all variables with bindings wider than the given limit. I chose this way because typically you get lots of results, too many to view them one by one, so most of the time I use isearch to find the stuff I'm interested in. With a folding approach, the output looks nicer, but it still contains a lot of stuff I'm surely not interested in. Most of the time these huge list values are irrelevant for what you are searching for. Michael.