From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 09:33:55 +0300 Message-ID: <838sicw4do.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <20200429101755.GF24737@tuxteam.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="119548"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 01 08:35:08 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUPGN-000Uyq-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 08:35:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48212 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUPGM-0004Dk-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 02:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUPFY-0003ma-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 02:34:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38507) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUPFY-0001F0-6H; Fri, 01 May 2020 02:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3035 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUPFQ-0004ac-7D; Fri, 01 May 2020 02:34:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:49:35 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248295 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:49:35 -0400 > > In addition to C-h d, perhaps apropos and its variants should find > 'assq' when you search for 'alist'. When I suggested to use C-h d, the response was that this (or the equivalent index-search in Info) is not the solution being sought. So I see no reason to extend facilities that will not help improve the situation for people who think the C-h family of the commands is not the right way to solve the problems they are reporting, because we'd end up with a command that no one uses. OTOH, we may wish to improve C-h d or apropos, for those who do use it, by, for example, adding a facility to request the list of functions and variables that have the first line of their doc string match the specified regexp. But that would be an independent idea, not related to the current discussion. I'm not aware of any requests for such enhancements, FWIW, so I'm not sure they are worth our while.