From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:40:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7dx9diw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DHEEKFAFJEFOJHLCFPFDKENICBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
Drew Adams writes:
> Users should be able to find and use commands that give them info about (a)
> all vars, (b) all functions, (c) just commands, and (d) just user options;
> and the names of those commands should reflect what they do.
FWIW, XEmacs has had `C-h a' bound to `hyper-apropos' (dunno if this
exists in Emacs) which returns all variables and functions with
non-void values and function cells respectively, for a decade now,
with no complaints about verboseness that I can remember.
> Similarly, we should rename `set-variable' to `set-option' and define a new
> `set-variable' command that sets any variable, not just a user option. (I
> have defined such a command in my own code, but I just call it
> `set-any-variable', for now.)
Why not just make `setq' interactive?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-21 6:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 19:08 apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables Drew Adams
2007-10-19 20:24 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-19 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21 6:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2007-10-21 7:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 20:41 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-22 0:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-23 0:35 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-23 7:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-26 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-26 22:43 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-27 13:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-06 22:46 ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables] Drew Adams
2007-11-11 21:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-11-11 21:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-12 0:43 ` Drew Adams
2007-11-12 0:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-12 5:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-12 12:33 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-11-12 15:30 ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commands forcommands, " Drew Adams
2007-11-12 17:10 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-11-12 19:23 ` customize-set-(value|variable) [was: apropos commandsforcommands, " Drew Adams
2007-11-12 20:32 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-23 7:12 ` apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables Richard Stallman
2007-10-25 20:59 ` Juri Linkov
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