From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: apropos search
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:15:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbllmpoi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5e7d8e6f-1a77-4359-b806-52f6d9086fe1@d12g2000vbr.googlegroups.com
sable <zxcv_890@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
> When you're doing an apropos search, is there a way to tell Emacs to
> search for "whole words only". E.g, if you use the keyword "change"
> and you only want command names that contain the word change, and not
> "changes" or "exchange".
C-h a \<change\> RET
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-02 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-02 15:00 apropos search sable
2010-06-02 15:15 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-06-02 15:23 ` sable
2010-06-02 19:22 ` Andreas Politz
2010-06-04 13:13 ` sable
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