From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Scroll two buffers in unison
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:12:52 +0200 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1030121080847.9650G-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28yxfb577.fsf@sbcglobal.net>
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Once again I've overlooked your often repeated sound advice to make
> use of index search as a main method. I tried everthing but the
> kitchen sink instead. Maybe I'll think of it first next time.
>
> In fact, one thing I tried actually found it (M-x apropos) but I still
> managed to overlook it in the 240 line list dredged up with `scroll'
> as regex.
The index search is IMHO more powerful than apropos, because the latter
searches more-or-less arbitrary text (the doc strings), while the former
searches index entries which were crafted specifically to be useful for
finding the topic they point to.
So I recommend to try `i' first, even before apropos. The only
exception to this rule is when you almost know the exact name of the
function/variable--in that case, apropos will usually have a higher
success rate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-21 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-20 17:09 Scroll two buffers in unison Harry Putnam
2003-01-20 19:23 ` Henrik Enberg
2003-01-20 20:01 ` Glenn Morris
2003-01-20 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.636.1043098071.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-20 21:44 ` Glenn Morris
2003-01-21 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-21 2:35 ` Harry Putnam
2003-01-21 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-01-20 20:49 ` Dan Debertin
2003-01-20 21:12 ` Harry Putnam
2003-01-20 23:21 ` Glenn Morris
[not found] <mailman.661.1043129478.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-21 11:00 ` Glenn Morris
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