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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 41021@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41021: [PATCH] New command apropos-function
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:25:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh723a6i.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kpa4ovp.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:22:18 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>>>> +;;;###autoload
>>>> +(defun apropos-function (pattern)
>>>> +  "Show functions that match PATTERN.
>>>> +
>>>> +PATTERN can be a word, a list of words (separated by spaces),
>>>
>>> There was some disagreement whether this duplicates apropos-command
>>> unnecessarily, but I think (as I think most of the people who commented)
>>> that this seems useful -- it helps with discovery, which I think is a
>>> good thing.
>>
>> Should it be announced in NEWS?
>
> Oh yeah, definitely.  I'll add that...

Oops.  I thought that was a different patch that I had applied.  :-)

But, yes, it's definitely NEWS-worthy.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-10 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-02 10:40 bug#41021: [PATCH] New command apropos-function Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 11:35   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 11:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03  3:44     ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-02 13:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 14:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04  3:09     ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-03  3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-08 12:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 13:06   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-10 13:22     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 13:25       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-08-10 13:37         ` Stefan Kangas
     [not found] <<CADwFkmkQxhX+UvfHacDJVi3tuGuzjiv0Eb5p6ywEOKUu4zmg4w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <<603ebaa3-3014-4f98-9e1b-a89eeebee6af@default>
     [not found]   ` <<834ksxqexm.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-05-03 20:13     ` Drew Adams

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