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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 09:31:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8962-Sat18May2002093154+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5xznyy8mlq.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk)

> From: storm@cua.dk
> Date: 17 May 2002 23:56:33 +0200
> 
> Actually your first example finds 67 matches on my emacs.
> 
> Your second example is an unfair comparison, as my proposal was that 
> at least two matching words should be required.  This can be illustrated
> by (apropos "\\(find\\|file\\).*\\(find\\|file\\)") which finds 74 hits.
> 
> So I don't see the big difference...

FWIW, I think both 67 and 74 hits are too much.  It takes too much
time to wade through such a long list; many users will give up before
they get to the end.

I think we need to find some way to make the search more efficient
than that.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-18  6:31 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
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 [this message]
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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