From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "D. Goel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps Date: 16 May 2002 09:05:59 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5xg00y41zj.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021554554 22003 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 13:09:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 178L0M-0005im-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 15:09:14 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 178LCM-0002y3-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 15:21:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178L0J-0007LW-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 09:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ipr-mail.umd.edu ([128.8.86.132]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178KxF-00078C-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 09:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from poynting.umd.edu (root@poynting.umd.edu [128.8.86.100]) by ipr-mail.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15119 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 09:06:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from poynting.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poynting.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA06465 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 09:06:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from deego@localhost) by poynting.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA14221; Thu, 16 May 2002 09:06:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: poynting.umd.edu: deego set sender to deego@glue.umd.edu using -f In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4001 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4001 > What do you think? IMHO, cool idea.. i do love it when the search-engine does smart stuff for you using a lot of rules and intelligent guesses.. and various combinations of what you typed.. in fact, i revel in programming similar stuff for my company.. but, IMHO, that should be an alternative, and not replacement for existing functionality.. there should always be a way where i can ask the good old apropos to do 'precisely' what i ask it to do viz. precisely match the regexp i asked it to match.. and not make smart guesses of its own.. Have a good day, D --