From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: <87pp671ygs.fsf@yahoo.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431321584 23007 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2015 05:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 05:19:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Emacs-Devel \(emacs-devel@gnu.org\)" To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 07:19:34 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrg7o-0004b2-OA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 07:19:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35471 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrg7n-0002I4-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:19:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrg7k-0002Hz-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrg7h-0003lZ-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:19:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:60566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrg7h-0003lB-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:19:25 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AikLANw6UFWkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABchEGCULAiAQaZWwKBcAEBAQEBAYELQQODXQEBAwF5BQsIAyElDwEESROIFgENCLVQiz4BhWkBAQgCAR+GFoI0gm+FBQeELQEEnSCHSo8NI4N5PDGCRgEBAQ Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO localhost) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 11 May 2015 07:19:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 9 May 2015 12:16:57 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186394 Archived-At: Drew Adams 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