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From: Philip Ganchev <phil.ganchev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Searching for commands by any part of command name
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 01:01:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g2o3aba28081004072201z656a2fb9x88520200e37a67db@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi

Emacs command names can be confusing to newcomers and casual users,
partly because of the word order in command names, and partly because
users don't know how to specify the action (which begins the command
name). For example, to close a window, you delete it.  I think it
would be easier if it was possible to search commands
case-insensitively and by text anywhere in the name, rather than only
the beginning. For example, if a user types

M-x window <tab>

then Emacs would list commands including:

balance-windows
buffer-menu-other-window
clone-indirect-buffer-other-window
compare-windows
delete-other-windows
delete-window

Can Emacs be customized or modified to do that?




             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08  5:01 Philip Ganchev [this message]
2010-04-08  5:08 ` Searching for commands by any part of command name Philip Ganchev
2010-04-08  8:50 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-04-08 13:25   ` William Xu
2010-04-08 13:42   ` Drew Adams
2010-04-08 12:34 ` Gary .
2010-04-08 14:13   ` Drew Adams
2010-04-08 13:38 ` Drew Adams

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