From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>,
"Emacs-Devel \(emacs-devel@gnu.org\)" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why do apropos commands match only pairs of words in a word-list pattern?
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 16:51:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9rj182s.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb8ad237-c97f-4ec9-94b4-6937e4d01abc@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 11 May 2015 07:06:01 -0700 (PDT)")
>> My own experience is that I both sometimes liked and sometimes hated
>> the behaviour.
> but
> that doesn't tell why. And why pairs and not triplets or...?
I liked it because it just worked. I threw keywords at it, I was lucky
enough to get a useful answer quickly. I know, that's not a very
interesting reason...
--
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-11 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-09 19:16 Why do apropos commands match only pairs of words in a word-list pattern? Drew Adams
2015-05-11 5:21 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-05-11 14:06 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-11 14:51 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2015-05-11 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<87pp671ygs.fsf@yahoo.fr>
[not found] ` <<fb8ad237-c97f-4ec9-94b4-6937e4d01abc@default>
[not found] ` <<83lhgvma79.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-05-11 17:01 ` Drew Adams
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