Eric M. Ludlam wrote:
>> One drawback of this might be that it is harder to learn which commands 
>> there are. Maybe this can be cured by showing the command to carry out 
>> on that page.
> 
> Indeed.  You would have half a screen to provide as much information
> as needed, such as:
> 
> --------------
> Find: Enter string to search for:
> 
>  [-!-                       ] <- gray widget here
> 
> [ occur ] - Search this buffer [more]
> [ multi-occur ] - Search many buffers [more]
> 
> Arguments and Files for Search:
> 
>  [-!-                       ] <- gray widget here too
> 
>  [ grep ] - use grep to search files [more]
>  [ lgrep ] - use grep to search for regexp [more]
>  [ find-grep ] - Search files specified by find [more]
> 
> -----------------
> 
> Not that I've used all these functions.
> 
> Eric

I have played a bit with this idea, see the attached file. (Note that 
lgrep/rgrep does not work at the moment.)