From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: apropos/apropos-variable cursor Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:10:25 +0200 Message-ID: <460D2861.8010807@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1175300947 12181 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2007 00:29:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 30 17:10:31 2007 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 1HXIkJ-0007wj-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:10:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HXIn0-0003sU-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:13:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HXImx-0003rv-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HXImv-0003r5-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HXImv-0003r0-9B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:13:13 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HXIkC-0000AX-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64805 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HXIkB-0002iD-6W; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:10:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000729-0, 2007-03-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HXIkB-0002iD-6W. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HXIkB-0002iD-6W aab5e7ddcf5309341fcfc686c52725a6 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:68800 Drew Adams wrote: >> If I do >> >> M-x apropos RET cursor RET >> >> I can see the variable `cursor-type', but if I do >> >> M-x apropos-variable RET cursor RET >> >> I can not find it in the list shown. To me that is at least a bit >> surprising. Should it be that way? > > Yes, according to the doc: > > Show user variables that match pattern. > ... > With C-u prefix, or if `apropos-do-all' is non-nil, also show > normal variables. > > I suggested that this command be renamed `apropos-option', for this very > reason. > > I do this in my own code, and add an `apropos-variable' that does the same > thing, but with `apropos-do-all' bound to t. Clearer, IMO. I agree.