From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Ganchev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Searching for commands by any part of command name Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 01:01:33 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: philip@cs.pitt.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270702926 432 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2010 05:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 05:02:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 08 07:02:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzjsT-0003f7-Jk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:02:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NzjsT-0003nR-3l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nzjs1-0003nA-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45160 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nzjs0-0003mQ-Cw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzjrz-0005dH-0M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:46700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzjry-0005d9-Tc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: by vws14 with SMTP id 14so1005462vws.0 for ; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:01:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:date:received :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Ral7GvBiqnqlzalwhuKNSyEXevlX4GqEOygR+uUaQVE=; b=n7xbtEzGhi5Z7lzOq77RyiRQGfVkLqZhnMq+GfXQL2v4Y5KktIxVI4Nbl/3wuNlDFA ONXi4w6XSej1nXunXWvwcWfS1U571pHeMERUHIh3OC6UbGX/Oi6YmuH/aMLoX6A4FTbp slq2pbqOXItal3SbynOsGu/BcGVUCXbNZG0kM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=J1iYoc8f9nlupGNBptNT/qBlSjMhNWNx6Pf5bS+M/M5n7qup0X6CNfEirJ99Oh3do7 synz4cdCfrNOrKwezCF0bhmm5T1+DWqAj19jFxu1m86Gvv9OgIhYbGYV+iQ7fZRbKcd6 wrrYsfunFOPM7kp/dFMAu0k9+S6dyZC2BAnw8= Original-Received: by 10.220.84.140 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.107.219 with SMTP id c27mr4877914vcp.87.1270702893202; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:01:33 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72624 Archived-At: 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 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?