From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41021: [PATCH] New command apropos-function Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="1364"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 41021@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 05:47:42 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5bS-0000EH-4N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 05:47:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49824 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5bR-0003Ie-5J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37920) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Ys-0007nm-Du for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Ys-0007j2-3g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Ys-0006QR-2G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:45:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 03:45:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41021 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 41021-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41021.158847749124654 (code B ref 41021); Sun, 03 May 2020 03:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41021) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 May 2020 03:44:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54441 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Yg-0006Pa-Tu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34768) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Yf-0006PO-1V for 41021@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44777) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5YY-0007Mj-QO; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5YX-0001wd-Oo; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 2 May 2020 12:40:06 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179566 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Of course, I quickly realized that I had actually been looking for 'C-u M-x > apropos-command' all along. But for some reason I never thought to read > the docstring of 'apropos-command'. (Or maybe I read it at some point but > forgot about it.) > I think a new command would help make this feature more discoverable, > especially to beginners. Please see the attached patch. >From what we've recently learned, this is a good idea. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)