From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using Emacs' help system Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:34:49 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87obfr688e.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360570509 3274 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2013 08:15:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:15:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 09:15:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U4oXy-0001AV-7t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:15:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57813 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4oXe-0007Zv-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:15:10 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="29483"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+sVFUu7PW7QzHJrO3NoNv2" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lhl58p1ZwpQFIE6C+nhII/jCuDw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196769 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:15:06 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89064 Archived-At: In article , "Drew Adams" wrote: > The command name doesn't tell you that it counts characters, but its doc > string > does, actually: But apropos doesn't show the whole doc string, just the first line. Since neither the name nor the first line of documentation suggests that this would be the command he wants, he wouldn't have any reason to click on it to see the full doc. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***