From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:42:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: <200710192224.44652.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192826617 13129 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 20:43:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:43:37 +0000 (UTC) To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 22:43:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iiygw-0004dX-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:43:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iiygp-0003ej-87 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iiygm-0003eK-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iiygk-0003dx-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iiygk-0003du-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iiygk-0008Qz-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l9JKhJe2014048; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:43:19 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l9J87PYf014207; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:43:19 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-153.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3306774761192826566; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:42:46 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200710192224.44652.andreas.roehler@online.de> Importance: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81252 Archived-At: > > Users should be able to find and use commands that give them > > info about (a) all vars, (b) all functions, (c) just commands, > > and (d) just user options; and the names of those commands > > should reflect what they do. > > That's a good idea. > > When examining something new, I like to list the > commands of that code. So I would appreciate to have it > per file or per mode. Sorry, I don't understand. Are you asking for the `apropos-*' commands to mention only things that are defined by the current major mode or defined in the current file? If so, please start a new thread for that; that is something quite different from what I proposed.