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: 16 May 2002 10:26:52 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5xbsbj9834.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205150700.g4F70rr16163@aztec.santafe.edu> <87ptzxmz7s.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <5xoffhoywn.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 1021512602 28566 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 01:30:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 01:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il, 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 178A5h-0007QP-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 03:30:01 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 178AHT-0004DE-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 03:42:12 +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 178A5v-0002CE-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 21:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.52]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178A3J-0001rX-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 21:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g4G1R0R08289; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:27:00 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g4G1QxR14076; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:26:59 +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 g4G1Qt828648; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:26:56 +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 g4G1QrK27360; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:26:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 17FF437C8; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:26:53 +0900 (JST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <5xoffhoywn.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Original-Lines: 25 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:3985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3985 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > I don't like the "and" approach -- at least not as the default. > (see my previous posting for the rationale). `and' is the defautl for all search engines that I've used, and has the advantage of being simple and easy to understand. Perhaps your idea of `2 or more' would work better in practice, but it's hard to say without some real experience. > Comparing to WEB search engines, I don't think that separating > keywords with commas is common practice... No, but it's common practice in writing lists. > Consider searching for "grep" -- shouldn't that return "igrep" ? Good point; I guess maybe it shouldn't do any anchoring at all (bit annoying, that, since I often get lots of false hits when my apropos term unexpectedly happens to occur in the middle of a common english word...). -Miles -- Is it true that nothing can be known? If so how do we know this? -Woody Allen