From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:22:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EcA7p-0005iv-1x@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r79i4ubt.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:52:22 +0200)
a command-apropos. Give a list of words or a regexp, to get a list of
commands whose names match (they contain two or more of the words,
===========
or a match for the regexp). See also the apropos command.
I don't understand why two or more of the words, if it is possible to
give just one word and find a command whose names contains one word.
Because, when you give multiple words, only instances that contain
two or more of the words are shown.
Maybe more correct text is "they contain one or more of the words".
That would be incorrect, in the case of a list of two or more words.
But I agree this is a problem. Who can find a correct solution?
I see there is a new key binding `C-h d' for `apropos-documentation'.
Wouldn't it be better to reserve `C-h d' for something more useful
and to bind `apropos-documentation' to a new key prefix `C-h a'?
Things are complex enough already, so I don't want to go that way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-15 23:22 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
2005-11-14 4:55 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-15 0:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 23:22 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
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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