From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22 Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:21:03 +0100 Message-ID: <437140EF.4040906@student.lu.se> References: <200511050315.jA53Fjd19148@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200511060027.jA60R2f26077@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200511080458.jA84wXB17185@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131495760 13006 80.91.229.2 (9 Nov 2005 00:22:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 00:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 01:22:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZdik-0004kd-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:21:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZdij-00022G-Ar for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:21:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EZdi9-00022A-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:21:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EZdi6-00021r-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZdi6-00021n-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EZdi5-0003K7-JI; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 436F401B0008B598; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:21:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:45608 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: >So is Luc's belly-aching over apropos actually based on any real data >(users getting confused by apropos behavior)? > >The mere presence of potential confusion does not mean that it's >likely to happen in practice. > And the absence of complaints unfortunately does not mean that everyone is not confused. If I ever did learn something while teaching it was to my surprise that a very common reason for not asking is beeing confused ;-)