Re: finding stuff

[John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 2:14 AM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
> M-x info-apropos searches through many info files.

I have been using emacs for decades and was unaware of this command.
Perhaps help-for-help-internal could be improved to make it more discoverable.
Today we have:

[..SNIP..]
i           Start the Info documentation reader: read included manuals.
I METHOD    Describe a specific input method, or RET for current.
k KEYS      Display the full documentation for the key sequence.
K KEYS      Show the Emacs manual’s section for the command bound to KEYS.
l           Show last 300 input keystrokes (lossage).
L LANG-ENV  Describes a specific language environment, or RET for current.
m           Display documentation of current minor modes and current major mode,
              including their special commands.
n           Display news of recent Emacs changes.
[..SNIP..]

A possible improvement might be:

[..SNIP..]
i           Start the Info documentation reader: read included manuals.
I STRING    Grovel indices of all known Info files on your system for STRING.
              Build a menu of the possible matches.
k KEYS      Display the full documentation for the key sequence.
K KEYS      Show the Emacs manual’s section for the command bound to KEYS.
l           Show last 300 input keystrokes (lossage).
L LANG-ENV  Describes a specific language environment, or RET for current.
m           Display documentation of current minor modes and current major mode,
              including their special commands.
M METHOD    Describe a specific input method, or RET for current.
n           Display news of recent Emacs changes.
[..SNIP..]

/john