From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: line-move-visual Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:11:44 -0700 Message-ID: <320AC0A65FA54C139274D49BCCEAF932@us.oracle.com> References: <200907092112.21879.jem@iki.fi> <87ws6hupsk.fsf@bzg.ath.cx><87ocrtulzd.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87tz1lja6l.fsf@bzg.ath.cx><83ocrsykx7.fsf@gnu.org> <87prc8lqi2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83eisoy7y3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247242483 7324 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2009 16:14:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:14:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bastienguerry@googlemail.com, jem@iki.fi, scot.becker@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 10 18:14:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MPIk7-0004Wb-DA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:14:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPIk6-0002sQ-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:14:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPIhc-0000vU-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPIhY-0000tb-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34691 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPIhX-0000tV-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:59301 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPIhV-0007Yd-Je; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n6AGBQm6003098 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:11:28 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt008.oracle.com (abhmt008.oracle.com [141.146.116.17]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n6AGBsuV026000; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:11:55 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.190.74) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:11:45 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <83eisoy7y3.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: AcoBZo3Ay/SK+W4TRh+uvbzF24l3JwAEdRkw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt008.oracle.com [141.146.116.17] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010206.4A576843.003B:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112310 Archived-At: > What bothers me a lot is that there doesn't seem to be a good way of > finding options relevant to some topic. The various `apropos' > commands we have are ad-hoc and rely on strings in symbol names or > documentation. What is missing is the ability to associate keywords > with symbols, akin to index entries we put in manuals. But first and > foremost, someone will have to come up with a useful set of keywords > (those used by finder.el are not even close). The words in doc strings serve pretty well as (ad-hoc) keywords - `apropos-documentation'.