From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Scroll two buffers in unison Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:12:52 +0200 (IST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043129912 30508 80.91.224.249 (21 Jan 2003 06:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18arjn-0007vZ-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:18:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18arhi-0002Ks-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:16:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18arh0-0002Es-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18arg3-000273-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:14:42 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18arfT-00021j-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:13:51 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA10083 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:12:53 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5799 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5799 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.