From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:54:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87hbie8ppy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739tyxoe5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87wrranqfv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fwxvk4ud.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <877hj7o9ia.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87tymal844.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8739ttunk1.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283415205 29950 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2010 08:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 10:13:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Or4vD-0004FR-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:13:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Or4vD-0000sm-5v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50302 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Or4sX-0007y4-A8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or4d0-0003hq-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:54605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or4d0-0003hH-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-34.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.34]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o827sTK4021981; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 03:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5C99A660DF; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:54:27 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <8739ttunk1.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:05:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3613=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129576 Archived-At: >> While I'm here, keywords are good when you need to show a list of >> "topics" to structure the set of packages, but we probably also need >> a way to "search". Problem is that we don't have a search engine in >> Elisp, so we'd have to rely on an external tool for that. > The simplest search engine we could use for packages is apropos, > i.e. implement `apropos-package' to work like `apropos-documentation' > and match package names, descriptions and keywords. I guess that can done and might work OK. But I was thinking of searching the Commentary sections, where we'd need something smarter. Stefan