From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos scoring Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:11:00 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84znkk1jcl.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5x8yr4o7vk.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <844r1s3y0x.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058055273 8486 80.91.224.249 (13 Jul 2003 00:14:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 13 02:14:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19bUVb-0002Ca-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:14:31 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19bUi6-0003Ej-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:27:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19bUVv-0001PB-Oc for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:14:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19bUTN-0008E0-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19bUSH-0005Pe-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:11:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19bUSC-0005B6-Bt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:11:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19bUSC-0003ss-4w; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:11:00 -0400 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) In-reply-to: <844r1s3y0x.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@gmx.net) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15567 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15567 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.