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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:22:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y841snc2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud5ldg11f.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:05:00 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:36:17 -0600 (CST)
>> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>

>> _And_ because sometimes you might want to search for keywords
>> containing characters that happen to be special in regexps, say
>> .emacs, .mailrc, whatever.
>
> A regexp ".emacs" will find a literal ".emacs", so this is not a big
> problem.

But it will also find "XEmacs" for an innocent little search term like
that.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-06 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-05  3:15 new apropos feature in Emacs-22 Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-05 15:52   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 16:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-05 17:33       ` Drew Adams
2005-11-05 19:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-05 20:38           ` Drew Adams
2005-11-05 22:10             ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 23:00             ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-05 23:18               ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-05 23:28                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 23:37                   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-05 23:31                 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-05 23:36                   ` Drew Adams
2005-11-05 23:39                   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-05 23:21               ` Drew Adams
2005-11-06  1:57               ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06  4:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-06  5:36                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 17:05                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-06 17:22                       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-11-06 18:43                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-06 18:31                       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 18:46                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07  9:45                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-11-07 20:43                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07 20:58                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07 21:54                         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-06 20:16                       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 22:54                         ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-06 18:47                     ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-06 19:19                       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-07  7:04                       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-07 21:55                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-06  9:19                   ` David Kastrup
2005-11-05 17:39       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 17:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-06 17:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-06 19:55       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 23:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-06  0:27   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-07 15:34     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-07 17:54       ` Drew Adams
2005-11-07 18:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-07 19:25           ` Drew Adams
2005-11-07 22:39           ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-07 20:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07 22:59           ` Drew Adams
2005-11-08  4:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-08  4:58       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-08 12:48         ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-08 23:53           ` Miles Bader
2005-11-09  0:21             ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-11  7:42         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-11  9:29           ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-11 10:57             ` Miles Bader
2005-11-11 16:16               ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-12  3:38               ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-12  3:15           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 17:49             ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-12  3:36           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 21:19             ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-14  4:55               ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-15  0:52                 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 23:22                   ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-17  7:38                     ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-17 10:06                       ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-09 23:25       ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-10  5:44         ` Richard M. Stallman

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