From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps Date: 17 May 2002 00:10:05 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xk7q34ude.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021583538 23116 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 21:12:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 178SXq-00060j-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 23:12:18 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 178Sk1-0005UA-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 23:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178SXk-00055a-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178SUz-0004xC-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DD427C016; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:09:20 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4024 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4024 Eli Zaretskii writes: > On 15 May 2002 storm@cua.dk wrote: > > > I don't like the "and" approach -- at least not as the default. > > I'm afraid anything else will bring too many hits. A docs search tool > that returns gobs of information is not very useful, in my experience. Some search engines order hits depending on how many words matches. I guess we could achieve the same in emacs. Alternatively, if matching only two words gives too many matches for documentation, require three (or four) matching words. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk