From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:27:32 +0100 Organization: Janet Usenet Reading Service. Message-ID: References: <1s1veayqka.fsf@xoc2.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273063458 22890 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 12:44:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:44:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 14:44:14 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9dxW-0007DE-8W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 14:44:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9dxV-0008H2-MR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:44:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!times.reader.netnews.ja.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: north.jnrs.ja.net 1271950073 11056 147.188.193.16 (22 Apr 2010 15:27:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@north.jnrs.ja.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:27:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177839 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:55:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73430 Archived-At: On 4/21/2010 7:23 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Apropos searches the docstrings (which tend to > describe the actual code), so it will work well if you know the exact > term used inside Emacs to refer to your functionality. But if you > happen to use another term, it often fails miserably. The manual > writers OTOH make a conscious effort to mention not just the precise > term used inside Emacs but also the more generic terms that are related > to it. Gosh, that explanation should be printed in bold font, framed and posted in every Emacs-user's wall! Cheers, Uday