From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Searching for commands by any part of command name Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 07:13:09 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270736502 19435 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2010 14:21:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: philip@cs.pitt.edu To: "'Gary .'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 08 16:21:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzsc0-0005sR-4g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:21:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nzsbz-0004Q4-Ff for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NzsbZ-0004Py-LV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59277 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NzsbS-0004Ph-QV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzsbQ-0005Uq-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:36539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzsbJ-0005TU-RA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o38EKpSx006899 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:20:52 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o38EDE9b009842; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:13:14 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt010.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 146158121270735991; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:13:11 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:13:10 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcrXIovuD6QRvsaeTuu3vG1wxvOHlwAAtc6w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090203.4BBDE47B.00C7:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72633 Archived-At: > Maybe I'm not understanding, but what's wrong with > M-x *window ? If he has Emacs 22 or earlier, it doesn't match substrings. In Emacs 23, there is some support for substring matching, as you indicate.