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From: sable <zxcv_890@hotmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: apropos search
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:23:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35b494c9-bd6f-4ca6-b7bf-be85935e478a@z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87hbllmpoi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

On Jun 2, 11:15 am, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> sable <zxcv_...@hotmail.com> writes:
> > Hi,
> > When you're doing an apropos search, is there a way to tell Emacs to
> > search for "whole words only". E.g, if you use the keyword "change"
> > and you only want command names that contain the word change, and not
> > "changes" or "exchange".
>
> C-h a \<change\> RET
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Interesting, thanks. Is there a way (variable) to change the default
search to "whole words only"?


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-02 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-02 15:00 apropos search sable
2010-06-02 15:15 ` David Kastrup
2010-06-02 15:23   ` sable [this message]
2010-06-02 19:22     ` Andreas Politz
2010-06-04 13:13       ` sable

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