From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 15:08:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83bln6tu7y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <20200429101755.GF24737@tuxteam.de> <838sicw4do.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhaqu89z.fsf@gnu.org> <83sggiu2p9.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1w2u20y.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfmatym6.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftcitwcr.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="113383"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 14:13:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUr1N-000TOb-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:13:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60176 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUr1M-0002ZM-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 08:13:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUqwz-0005JT-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 08:12:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55814) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUqwy-0005er-Vi; Sat, 02 May 2020 08:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4340 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUqwk-0000og-CM; Sat, 02 May 2020 08:08:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sat, 2 May 2020 13:52:09 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248412 Archived-At: > From: Philippe Vaucher > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 13:52:09 +0200 > Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, Richard Stallman , Emacs developers > > > Because alist is controversial let's take "C-h d regexp match": it does not give me string-match nor > > match-string. > > ??? It does here. > > It's listed at the 1293th lines! I have to scroll for ages, while passing by `magic-mode-regexp-match-limit` or > `char-fold-to-regexp`. Surely this cannot be a good solution. It can, if someone needs such a general search. For looking up functions, I think my proposal to look just in the arguments and the first line of the doc string will be more efficient. And index search in the ELisp manual is also a good tool in this case.