From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:21:34 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n06etybl.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87ekru8z8v.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87brmxjmp9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <7105-Tue16Mar2004214348+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079594771 20775 80.91.224.253 (18 Mar 2004 07:26:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:26:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 08:26:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3rum-0007hd-00 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:26:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3rum-0002ur-00 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:26:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3rtV-0006Sw-Rg for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 02:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3rtP-0006Pf-Jy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 02:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3rst-0006Go-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 02:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.6] (helo=knife.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3rro-00061G-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 02:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-32-10-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.10]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE83E4060; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:22:53 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <7105-Tue16Mar2004214348+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:43:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20569 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20569 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > I don't think we need to physically bring all the indices together, we > just need to have Emacs command look into all of these indices as > appropriate. > >> Another good thing that could be implemented in Emacs is the --apropos >> feature of the standalone Info browser. > > Full agreement. I wanted to implement it, but noticed that it is already implemented by Jesper Harder: http://purl.org/harder/info-apropos.el. It is essentially only one function which does all the work. I think this is a useful feature and could be added to info.el. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/