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 behavior question Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 10:30:43 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <410E6C33.5010603@yahoo.com> References: 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 1091464345 27727 80.91.224.253 (2 Aug 2004 16:32:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:32:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 18:32:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BrfjS-0004Hp-00 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:32:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Brfmq-0008Ox-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:35:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de J7oRI9K8G5b4GTadiMt1/wN7fLOh3s+hLs/P1sRLx9XAOXwPE= 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:124610 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19943 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19943 Javier Oviedo wrote: > Is there any reason that apropos does not find "variable" matches? It lists > "commands" and "functions." > And yes, apropos-do-all's value is t. :-) > > Is there a way to enable this? Which apropos command are you using? `C-h a' is bound to apropos-command; perhaps you want `M-x apropos-variable' or just plain `M-x apropos'. And their doc strings explain how each interprets the apropos-do-all option. -- Kevin Rodgers