From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp problem 9 of 10: NOT `interactive', but INTERACTIVE!
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:50:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864j7sjmgv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ikw8z40y.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sat, 10 Aug 2024 19:22:37 +0200)
> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 19:22:37 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Yet do TAB complete in the minibuffer and there are so many
> >> functions anyway it is impossible to find anything.
> >> Do `apropos-function' for "end-of" you get 212 lines of
> >> output, everything from w3m, to slime, to rmail.
> >
> > You forgot about "C-h a" (apropos-command).
>
> Indeed, this 'meaningful' distinction is everywhere, it is all
> over Emacs, massive.
And for a very good reason.
> But actually there are 399 lines for C-h a `end-of'.
Not here. In "emacs -Q", I get just 21, for 9 commands. Maybe you
have apropos-do-all customized to t, in which case "C-h a" will report
functions as well, not just commands.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-10 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-10 16:19 Elisp problem 9 of 10: NOT `interactive', but INTERACTIVE! Emanuel Berg
2024-08-10 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-10 17:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-10 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=864j7sjmgv.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=incal@dataswamp.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).