From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps Date: 14 May 2002 14:55:16 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5x7km797qi.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021363390 15180 127.0.0.1 (14 May 2002 08:03:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 08:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 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 177XH4-0003wj-00 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 10:03:10 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 177XS0-00072y-00 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 10:14:28 +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 177XHC-0000oc-00; Tue, 14 May 2002 04:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177VHU-0005T8-00; Tue, 14 May 2002 01:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.193]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g4E5tMV14267; Tue, 14 May 2002 14:55:22 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g4E5tMZ01811; Tue, 14 May 2002 14:55:22 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g4E5tG804964; Tue, 14 May 2002 14:55:19 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g4E5tGK24537; Tue, 14 May 2002 14:55:16 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id C52DE37C8; Tue, 14 May 2002 14:55:16 +0900 (JST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <5x7km797qi.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Original-Lines: 13 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:3910 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3910 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > We could put \b around the words in the regexp if we don't want substring > matching. Hmmm, personally I quite often want substring matching in apropos searches, though it's usually the _end_ of the word where it matters; perhaps just putting \< at the beginning would be alright (iff the search term starts with a word constituent). -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?