From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos scoring Date: 13 Jul 2003 02:55:38 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xhe5rdz3p.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <84znkk1jcl.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5x8yr4o7vk.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <844r1s3y0x.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058050838 26430 80.91.224.249 (12 Jul 2003 23:00:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 13 01:00:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19bTM5-0006sA-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:00:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19bTYZ-0002Zw-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:13:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19bTLB-0001yO-Uy for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19bTKe-0000gh-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19bTK0-00082U-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([193.162.153.3]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19bTJJ-0006oz-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id A2ACC5EE0BA for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:57:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <844r1s3y0x.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15564 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15564 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > If I am allowed to dream, the best would be to always have scoring, > but to allow for sorting the output in different ways. Sort by score > and sort by name would be the two obvious sorting methods. I can see that Richard has installed my patch, but at the same time modified the meaning of apropos-show-scores to also mean "sort by scores". I do not object to that coupling as such, but I think the variable is named wrong with the new meaning. Since apropos scoring is new in 21.4, I think we can just change the name of that variable. I think a better name would be apropos-list-ordering with options nil (lexical), t (scoring), 'show (scoring, show scores). WDYT? BTW, the new entry added to NEWS about the recent change should be rewritten to describe apropos scoring in general (I'm sorry I forgot to add one when I originally introduced scoring). --=20 Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk