Re: finding stuff

[Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>]

Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> is there a way to search "everything" which comes with Emacs?
>
> Example: I do not remember Local Variables section syntax and have to
> look it up.  I try various things, fail and end up using web browser.
> That is far from ideal.
>
> Today I invested a bit more time and found C-h d command so C-h d "local
> variables" and then C-s "local variables:" finds something: one hit
> only.  Now I discovered add-file-local-variable function.  But still not
> the syntax of the Local Variables section.
>
> Searching info is still a mystery to me.  Is there a way to search
> across all info files?
>
> Is there a way to search everything which comes with emacs,
> e.g. function names, docstrings, info, NEWS etc?

I think a way of searching all those things would be useful.  As others
have mentioned there are separate ways of searching most of them.  I
think "info-apropos" is the most useful for your wishes.

Another possibility that people haven't mentioned is to build Emacs from
source then to load the tags-table and search that.

However, I still think that info-apropos is best.  Things like grep or
the Emacs source can bring too many hits to be useful.

BR,
Robert Thorpe