From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: apropos for packages [was: plz -> curl?] Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 18:19:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32964"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, adam@alphapapa.net, luangruo@yahoo.com, larsi@gnus.org, philipk@posteo.net, mardani29@yahoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 00:20:28 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nrS1r-0008O3-QD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 00:20:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36838 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrS1q-0004gV-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 May 2022 18:20:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrS0v-0003lw-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2022 18:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrS0s-0006Wy-Ev; Wed, 18 May 2022 18:19:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=UNrNcbfI5ncOPvZeZLhpIyaV/V7J3iDRiguPLDkVAJs=; b=A+bscHduu9Uv Oao9HS0Z6fVxdxp0jAirr5e+8R0E79oefs7nIGtdOhcIGDZSdtjgXz/rMieSSxbKyKIt9p/jC2u66 UvjMHutBBw6yJjG/gRLrILplnTdl+Q7/YVNFt7bH2xohR2AGpOHQjHc11YgMqfpEbI3ExibToqsg8 pV36J3fYseOT43gVdpTBP04GQunuU9SWEavYmOkDkM40u2TpQJVgaPEpQFbG1hi1jyabEqlaroMDx lRijFAR6Uns7xLocwhYMUp9lxkUBCntBBlM7OGeu1Uv2EEgzttbqG2Y0cpjH2133JQ9L5OW/WRwf/ W0fMbg77Btjja7BlQLml6A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrS0s-0006iU-7I; Wed, 18 May 2022 18:19:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 17 May 2022 16:23:20 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:289939 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] It would be natural for M-x apropos to include packages as well as functions and variables. And likewise apropos-documentation. It's useful to invite users to think of apropos as a way to search through all the various namespaces of things in Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)