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    > But the search
    > for these words should allow them to be substrings of words.  It should
    > not require an exact match against an entire word in the command name.

    Substring search might yield too many hits, I'm afraid.

No more than Apropos gets now.  Anyway, it is very useful.  Let's try
it this way (i.e., no change in this regard) first; we could change
it later if necessary.