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: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:40:40 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FC39418.8020605@yahoo.com> References: <4kjspb.57.ln@acm.acm> <3FC251BF.2070105@yahoo.com> 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 1069782471 15899 80.91.224.253 (25 Nov 2003 17:47:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:47:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 18:47:49 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 1AOhHx-0001An-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:47:49 +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 1AOiDw-0000rO-EA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:47:44 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1069782042 64554871 170.207.51.80 ([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:118627 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:14569 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14569 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Kevin Rodgers wrote on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:45:19 -0700: >>C-h a apropos ; i.e. M-x apropos-command RET apropos > > No, I meant what should have prompted me to try C-h a apropos? I've been > aware of C-h a for a long time. Damn useful thing it is, too. But I'd > NO idea that there might have been other aproposals, thus no reason to > try C-h a apropos. If you're interested in the online documentation, you should read the Help section of the manual (available online naturally, via C-h i). It lists `C-h a' and `M-x apropos-documentation' along with many other commands, and has an entire Apropos subsection (and 8 other subsections). I think I found out about the other apropos commands long ago by typing `M-x apropos ?'. But maybe I'm just curious. -- Kevin Rodgers