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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:19:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r79lix2j.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511120336.jAC3aHZ25759@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:36:17 -0600 (CST)")

> Complete beginners do not even know about the apropos commands.  Users
> must have learned about them somewhere, probably in `(emacs)Apropos'.

More likely, from the Help buffer after typing `C-h ?' or `f1 f1':

a  command-apropos.  Give a substring, and see a list of commands
   (functions that are interactively callable) that contain
   that substring.  See also the  apropos  command.

Note that this description is incomplete.  It says nothing about
patterns, word lists or regexps.  Maybe it is simple enough for
beginners.  But it might be confusing for beginners if after reading
this description and typing `a' they will see a prompt asking for
"(word list or regexp): ".

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-12 21:19 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
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 [this message]
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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