unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Apropos scoring
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:11:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E19bUSC-0003ss-4w@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <844r1s3y0x.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@gmx.net)

    Hm.  C-h a is apropos-command, which I think also searches the symbol
    names, just like apropos does.  So why have scoring for
    apropos-command but not for apropos?

I find that I dislike the non-lexical order of the output of
apropos-command.  There is no clear reason logic behind it,
so it is mysterious.

I think that the score should be used in sorting only if the score is
shown.  When the score is shown, the user will see that the score was
the basis for the ordering.  It will make sense.

I will do that now.

    If I am allowed to dream, the best would be to always have scoring,
    but to allow for sorting the output in different ways.  Sort by score
    and sort by name would be the two obvious sorting methods.

I agree, that would be useful.  

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-13  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-14 20:42 Apropos scoring Kai Großjohann
2003-07-12  1:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-07-12  9:16   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-07-13  0:11     ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-07-13  0:55     ` Kim F. Storm
2003-07-13  9:13       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-07-13 10:46         ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-07-13 17:34         ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-13 17:34       ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-15  0:04         ` Kim F. Storm

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=E19bUSC-0003ss-4w@fencepost.gnu.org \
    --to=rms@gnu.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).