From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 17:50:43 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <6137-Sun19May2002175042+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <5xbsbj9834.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205150700.g4F70rr16163@aztec.santafe.edu> <87ptzxmz7s.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <5xoffhoywn.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5xg00r4tlo.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205162138.g4GLchM03531@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200205181848.g4IImEW21971@aztec.santafe.edu> <200205182224.g4IMOKh13995@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021820045 2486 127.0.0.1 (19 May 2002 14:54:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:54:05 +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 179S4T-0000dy-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 16:54:05 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 179SHy-0002L4-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 17:08:02 +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 179S4b-0004TI-00; Sun, 19 May 2002 10:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from thor.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.11]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 179S2v-0004Lz-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 10:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Zaretsky ([80.230.2.40]) by thor.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.0.58-GA) with ESMTP id AFZ43818; Sun, 19 May 2002 17:52:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE) 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:4122 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4122 > From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE > Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:02:24 +0200 > > > C-h i m emacs i paste RET > > will make you jump to the glossary where it says "see killing and yanking", > > so the user should then know to search for `yank'. > > This won't work for more complicated queries, only for the > single-word case. What happens when the user searches for "cut > line"? The fact that "cut" is mentioned in the glossary won't help > so much. The same problem will happen if the user searches for "yank line". So I'm not sure what is your point; it is quite clear that some of the searches will fail to find all the keywords, and will have to do something smart about that. > (I assume that "cut" is mentioned in the glossary.) The Glossary has "cut and paste".