From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: require basic stuff from specific packages Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:12:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <864m8671sy.fsf@student.uu.se> <86y45glxpy.fsf@student.uu.se> <86lh16i94u.fsf@student.uu.se> <86vb09hd10.fsf@student.uu.se> <86mvllh68i.fsf@student.uu.se> <867fcpgx43.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468465993 15576 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2016 03:13:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 03:13:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 14 05:13:04 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bNX5E-00007q-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 05:13:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNX5A-0007Zw-Eg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNX4l-0007Zq-HZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:12:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNX4g-0007rm-Ic for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:12:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNX4g-0007rU-Bf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bNX4e-00088G-Ir for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 05:12:28 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-108-26-223-56.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([108.26.223.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 05:12:28 +0200 Original-Received: from hmelman by pool-108-26-223-56.bstnma.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 05:12:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-108-26-223-56.bstnma.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f2EdmZVvulkrYlwWi90/hG+Oixo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110831 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > I think there should be an explicit method for > finding a thing which is denoted by a term that > is known, only not the exact function (or > variable) name, as in this case: to trim > a string is the conventional designation, and > `string-trim' is the function - so far > all good. Some of the manuals have a "concept index" for just this purpose. Both the emacs and elisp manuals do. I agree that it could be considered a bug that string trimming isn't indexed (or as I said, documented). Howard