From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get a list of all commands with given prefix? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:23:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87lhw661gn.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87lhw7mlrg.fsf@gmail.com> <87k3br1ifz.fsf@gmail.com> <87ob12mxet.fsf@bennee.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395217392 20671 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2014 08:23:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:23:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 09:23:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBmR-0006Rf-PD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:23:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBmR-00038I-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBm9-00035Q-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBm3-0007zK-RM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:23:01 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBm3-0007zA-Km for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBm2-0005rv-0o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:22:54 +0100 Original-Received: from e178189183.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.189.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:22:54 +0100 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178189183.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:22:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178189183.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rcS6SdY+X+U5svg0yicwzHv+Bbs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96617 Archived-At: Alex Bennée writes: > Jambunathan K writes: > >> Thorsten Jolitz writes: >> >>> I wonder how I can easily get a list of all interactive commands with a >>> given prefix 'foo-' in a program (non-interactively)? >> >> If you are adventurous you can use the completion mechanism to give the >> shortlisted candidates for you. You have to fill in the holes yourself. >> >> If you are having very recent Emacs, experiment with >> >> M-x icomplete-mode >> > > > There is also a useful helm completion mode called helm-descbinds which > I often use to find both interactive commands bound to keys in given > modes. There is also helm-apropos for more general searching through > defined functions and variables. Although I just started with it, I find helm really amazing for interactive use. helm-apropos is great, did not know that, very good replacement for doing ,------------------- | C-h f RET foo- TAB `------------------- But I don't seem to have helm-descbinds - is that an extra package? -- cheers, Thorsten