From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: apropos apropos [was: how do i find out the platform emacs runs on?] Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:45:19 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FC251BF.2070105@yahoo.com> References: <4kjspb.57.ln@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069700454 31942 80.91.224.253 (24 Nov 2003 19:00:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 24 20:00:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOLx6-0006np-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:00:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AOMtj-0000Ay-Pd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:01:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1069699516 63089752 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118600 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14542 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14542 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hey, I never knew about `apropos-variable`. In fact, it never occurred > to me, until now, to try C-h a apropos. There's a whole wealth of > apropos-commands there, waiting to be discovered! > > When I type C-h, only `apropos-command' is mentioned in the list of > options. (Yes, I know, that's because it's the only one with an entry in > the C-h keymap.) > > As a matter of interest, how should I have discovered the existence of > these commands? C-h a apropos ; i.e. M-x apropos-command RET apropos -- Kevin Rodgers