From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Gary ." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Searching for commands by any part of command name Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:34:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270733771 7950 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2010 13:36:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: philip@cs.pitt.edu 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 15:36:09 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 1Nzrtw-0004lH-93 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:36:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nzrtv-0004aB-Ma for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NzqwO-00085u-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46302 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NzqwM-00084l-Ry for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzqwL-0005Mj-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:42306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzqwL-0005MR-Ci for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:34:33 -0400 Original-Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so245192wwf.0 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.167.65 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 05:34:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Original-Received: by 10.216.161.146 with SMTP id w18mr28257wek.100.1270730070402; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:34:30 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:32:25 -0400 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:72628 Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Philip Ganchev wrote: > 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, if a user types > > M-x window Maybe I'm not understanding, but what's wrong with M-x *window ?