From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:57:21 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200511050315.jA53Fjd19148@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200511060027.jA60R2f26077@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200511080458.jA84wXB17185@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131710230 2645 80.91.229.2 (11 Nov 2005 11:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 11 12:56:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaXWO-0007n2-Cj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:56:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaXWN-0007A9-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EaWay-0004jp-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EaWaw-0004ia-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaWav-0004iG-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.206] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EaWaw-0001Bf-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 67so1080625wri for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:57:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MTNhfPUdc3w7mOp1CrLALvZNHP0Zh/ICedZFoxi9ympsiQxhu+KKDddI6Iur8RnkzAT3jpcHmcBIuRpJ+spjOnzCqz7pd4ywi1YTFS0o2HoOCO6uuN7sx2ODoxMlYiHMEAcWH0tF0dQMamB3bbCpbpvTmEvnPcCF4sb4l8a76pg= Original-Received: by 10.54.78.9 with SMTP id a9mr172123wrb; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:57:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.160.4 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:57:20 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "Kim F. Storm" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45746 Archived-At: 2005/11/11, Kim F. Storm : > I'm thinking about adding a new optional argument ENABLE-KEYWORDS > to all apropos commands and set it via an interactive "p" spec, > i.e. so it is set to an integer for interactive use (meaning: ask user). > > Other callers could specify "nil" (default) to mean interpret PATTERN > as regexp, "t" to mean interpret PATTERN as words, and ">0" to mean ask > user, and "<0" to mean "automatically determine" without asking. I think it would be a _lot_ more intuitive to just have apropos functions interpret PATTERN as a regexp if it's a string, and as a list of keywords if it's a list. There could be a "read-apropos-pattern" function that would convert the user's input into the appropriate lisp value, which could be used directly in the (interactive ) form of various apropos commands. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.