From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 41021@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41021: [PATCH] New command apropos-function
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jV5YF-0001t4-9g@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9le4lil.fsf@stefankangas.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 02 May 2020 13:35:46 +0200)
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> >From looking at that list, I have concluded in the past that there is
> no way to search for functions, but only interactive commands. This
> is not a bad first approximation, I think, based on seeing the list of
> completions. Only upon reading the docstring of 'apropos-command'
> will you understand that this conclusion was wrong.
If defining apropos-function would help some people get started on
Lisp programming, I think that is well worth defining one new command.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-02 10:40 bug#41021: [PATCH] New command apropos-function Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 11:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-02 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 3:44 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-05-02 13:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-03 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-08 12:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 13:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-10 13:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 13:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 13:37 ` Stefan Kangas
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2020-05-03 20:13 ` Drew Adams
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