From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: new apropos feature in Emacs-22 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 09:33:12 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131212074 13294 80.91.229.2 (5 Nov 2005 17:34:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 05 18:34:25 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYRvA-0002eB-53 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:33:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYRv9-0005uh-IP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:33:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EYRuy-0005ua-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:33:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EYRuw-0005uN-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:33:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYRuw-0005uK-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:33:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [148.87.122.30] (helo=rgminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EYRuw-0001st-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:33:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id jA5HXKKM025385 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 10:33:20 -0700 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id jA5HXK3A025243 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 10:33:20 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-72-186.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.72.186]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id jA5HXJA2025236 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 10:33:19 -0700 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45464 Archived-At: I think the idea was that a list of words is more natural input at that point than a regexp. People nowadays are used to Google-style queries more than to regexps. FWIW, I rarely myself use regexps in apropos. Why try to mix regexp input with keyword input in the same command? That's just asking for trouble. Why not have two different commands - `apropos-with-keywords' and `apropos'? That's a cleaner way to add treatment of keywords. (Worse, but still better than this amalgam, would be to extend the `C-u' options to provide for keyword input. The default should be the traditional, regexp behavior, however.) Sorry, I missed the original discussion.