Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:57:38 -0600 (CST)
>> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
>> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> Are you sure that most newbies are accustomed to _your brand of_
>> keyword search: at least two alternatives in any order, with no way to
>> specify other requirements, _and_ with plenty of forbidden characters,
>> that are natural in an Emacs context, like `*', `.' `+'?
>
> Whether newbies are accustomed to this remains to be proven, but the
> characters ``natural in the Emacs context'' above come from an
> experienced user.
>
>> In the keyword searches that I am familiar with you can enclose the
>> keywords in quotation marks to force sequential in order occurrence.
>
> That's an advanced feature, you know.
>
>> I believe that after your change, newbies _still_ will have to learn
>> about regexps to accomplish what they are used to in search engines.
>
> Please explain why you think so.

We have string search and replace, and regexp search and replace.
Maybe regexp-apropos could be bound on C-h C-a .

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum