From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "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 07:21:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp671ygs.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb17cadb-6235-4c3f-919a-6ca8dcc1da6d@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 9 May 2015 12:16:57 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Instead of matching each word in the list you provide it, apropos
> commands match each pair of words from the list.
> Why is this the design? Wouldn't users more typically want *each*
> of the words they type to be matched?
My own experience is that I both sometimes liked and sometimes hated the
behaviour. Often the latter, though. I think it would be nice to sort by
relevance (e.g. the number of words that matched). How easy/difficult
would that be ?
--
Nicolas
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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 [this message]
2015-05-11 14:06 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-11 14:51 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-05-11 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-05-11 17:01 ` Drew Adams
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