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From: sable <zxcv_890@hotmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: apropos search
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:00:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e7d8e6f-1a77-4359-b806-52f6d9086fe1@d12g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hi,
When you're doing an apropos search, is there a way to tell Emacs to
search for "whole words only". E.g, if you use the keyword "change"
and you only want command names that contain the word change, and not
"changes" or "exchange".
Thanks,


             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-02 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-02 15:00 sable [this message]
2010-06-02 15:15 ` apropos search David Kastrup
2010-06-02 15:23   ` sable
2010-06-02 19:22     ` Andreas Politz
2010-06-04 13:13       ` sable

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