From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps Date: 13 May 2002 10:40:52 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021254307 32089 127.0.0.1 (13 May 2002 01:45:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 01:45:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1774te-0008LS-00 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 03:45:06 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17753z-0008Cu-00 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 03:55:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1774tj-0000CJ-00; Sun, 12 May 2002 21:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1774sd-0008PW-00; Sun, 12 May 2002 21:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.195]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g4D1hXV23016; Mon, 13 May 2002 10:43:33 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g4D1hWL06037; Mon, 13 May 2002 10:43:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id g4D1evu01501; Mon, 13 May 2002 10:42:38 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g4D1euK21254; Mon, 13 May 2002 10:40:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 5B6843722; Mon, 13 May 2002 10:40:52 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 23 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3866 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3866 Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Wouldn't it be simpler (for a novice user -- and for advanced users > > too) to simply write one or more words (substrings) and then search > > for all combinations of those words (substrings) in the relevant list. > > > > E.g. C-h a open file RET would find any matching > > > > open.*file and file.*open > > Perhaps we should have a new command for that, and name it something like > apropos-keywords. I agree, but I think it shouldn't use the wierd hack on regexp syntax, that's just confusing. I'd say just separate the keywords by looking for commas or whitespace or either (each `keyword' could be a regexp though). That would be both more convenient and also more familiar to people used to using typical keyword searches (e.g., in web search engines). -Miles -- Would you like fries with that?