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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: kfs@cua.dk, eliz@is.elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps
Date: 15 May 2002 20:23:35 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ptzxmz7s.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205150700.g4F70rr16163@aztec.santafe.edu>

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Are you suggesting all apropos commands should work by keywords
> instead of by regexps?

The way I envisioned it was all apropos commands taking _list_ of
regexps (separated by whitespace/commas), and applying them in an `and'
manner.  That way, the case where each element is a simple word word
would act like a typical keyword search, and the case where there's
only one entry would act like the current single-regexp implementation.

Given the particular nature of apropos usage in emacs, I think there
wouldn't be any conflict in practice from using whitespace/commas as
the list delimiters.

There might also be other things we can do, like if a term begins with
an alphabetic character, anchor it with \<.  [anchoring the end is
probably not a good idea, because people often expect searches to match
prefixes, I think.]

-Miles
-- 
[|nurgle|]  ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that 
            will  make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? 
[iddt]      nurg, that's the goal 

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-15 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-12  0:57 Apropos commands and regexps Kim F. Storm
2002-05-12  5:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-12  5:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-13  1:40   ` Miles Bader
2002-05-13 19:18     ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-14  5:55       ` Miles Bader
2002-05-13 19:11   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-14  5:38     ` Miles Bader
2002-05-15  7:00     ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-15 11:23       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-05-15 21:59         ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-16  1:26           ` Miles Bader
2002-05-16 22:26             ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-16 21:38               ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-17 11:59                 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-18 18:48                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-18 22:24                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-19 12:02                     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-19 14:50                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-19 15:23                         ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-19 19:40                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-19 23:33                       ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-20  9:50                         ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-16 21:58               ` Miles Bader
2002-05-17 12:01                 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-17 21:56                 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-18  6:31                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-18 22:47                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-17  6:15               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-17 11:58               ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-16  4:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-16 22:10             ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-16 21:20               ` Miles Bader
2002-05-17  6:13                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-18 18:49             ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-19  4:51               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-19 19:40                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-19 23:29                 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-20  3:31                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-16 20:24         ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-15 21:55       ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-16  4:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <5xbsbf4thx.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
2002-05-17  6:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-12 10:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-12 17:03   ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-13 19:26     ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-14  5:26       ` Miles Bader
2002-05-16 11:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-16 12:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-16 13:05   ` D. Goel
2002-05-16 22:37   ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-16 22:44   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-17 19:28   ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-18  6:26     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-19  5:30       ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-23 21:41 ` Kim F. Storm

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