From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
Subject: Re: finding stuff
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:22:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YA0gMiP7vWO9dWls@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADoYgq9FYW+trC9nYVkdfGPTht1BpB86vte4HrtL=Q-zp93YfA@mail.gmail.com>
* Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> [2021-01-24 08:34]:
> If I understand your needs correctly, 'apropos' will give you some of
> what you want. However it won't search the info files, news, etc.
>
> But actually for learning how to do something, web search really is
> the best option.
For specific stuff the web search provides solutions.
For general stuff people shall start with:
1. TUTORIAL under Help - Emacs Tutorial or {C-h t}
2. The Emacs Editor manual: (info "(emacs) Top")
3. An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp: (info "(eintr) Top")
4. Emacs Lisp manual: (info "(elisp) Top")
5. Using the menu item Help.
To search all info files use {M-x info-apropos RET} or click within
If one wants to index various files on system then person can use
desktop indexing software. That will not nicely help with Emacs
variables and functions. But it could help by at least locating where
some information exists.
Beagle - Quickly find the stuff you care about.
http://beagle-project.org/
Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool.
https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
Tracker is a filesystem indexer, metadata storage system and search tool
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker
Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine
http://www.terrier.org/
NEPOMUK - The Social Semantic Desktop
https://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/
Jean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 2:33 finding stuff Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-24 5:33 ` Bob Newell
2021-01-24 7:22 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-01-24 11:09 ` Tomas Nordin
2021-01-24 7:13 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-24 16:26 ` John Yates
2021-01-25 16:31 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-01-25 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 17:37 ` Bob Newell
2021-01-25 19:39 ` John Yates
2021-01-25 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 10:33 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-26 21:09 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-26 1:38 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-26 21:06 ` Bob Newell
2021-01-26 5:21 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-26 5:45 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-26 21:09 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-26 22:16 ` John Yates
2021-01-26 23:28 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-27 6:29 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-26 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 21:17 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-27 6:39 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-27 6:43 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-27 18:43 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-27 18:59 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-27 18:24 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-27 18:34 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-26 1:58 ` Robert Thorpe
2021-01-26 14:49 ` John Yates
2021-01-27 11:33 ` doltes doltes
2021-01-24 9:18 ` Jude DaShiell
2021-01-24 10:58 ` Tomas Nordin
2021-02-27 1:10 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-02-27 2:57 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-02-27 8:36 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-02-27 17:33 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-02-27 23:25 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-02-27 23:28 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-02-28 6:20 ` Robert Thorpe
2021-02-28 7:39 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-02-28 7:55 ` Jean Louis
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