Catalog of Emacs (Lisp) functions?

Catalog of Emacs (Lisp) functions?

[bill]

Where can I get a comprehensive catalog of all the "standard" Emacs
functions (such as goto-char or save-excursion or car) and global
variables?  I know that I can always give the regexp '.' to apropos,
but this just gets me a huge list of identifiers in alphabetical
order, which is not very useful.  What I want is the same identifiers
as (apropos ".") would report, but grouped according to function
(e.g. point movement, file management, etc.).  Does such a catalog
exist?

Many thanks in advance,

	-bill

Re: Catalog of Emacs (Lisp) functions?

[David Kastrup]

bill <please_post@nomail.edu> writes:

> Where can I get a comprehensive catalog of all the "standard" Emacs
> functions (such as goto-char or save-excursion or car) and global
> variables?  I know that I can always give the regexp '.' to apropos,
> but this just gets me a huge list of identifiers in alphabetical
> order, which is not very useful.  What I want is the same identifiers
> as (apropos ".") would report, but grouped according to function
> (e.g. point movement, file management, etc.).  Does such a catalog
> exist?

What's wrong with the Elisp manual?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Catalog of Emacs (Lisp) functions?

[Jesper Harder]

bill <please_post@nomail.edu> writes:

> Where can I get a comprehensive catalog of all the "standard" Emacs
> functions (such as goto-char or save-excursion or car) and global
> variables?  I know that I can always give the regexp '.' to apropos,
> but this just gets me a huge list of identifiers in alphabetical
> order, which is not very useful.  What I want is the same
> identifiers as (apropos ".") would report, but grouped according to
> function (e.g. point movement, file management, etc.).  Does such a
> catalog exist?

You know about the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, right?  If you go to
the index node, and sort by the second column you should get
something close to what you're looking for, e.g.

* abbrev-all-caps:                       Abbrev Expansion.
* abbrev-expansion:                      Abbrev Expansion.
* abbrev-prefix-mark:                    Abbrev Expansion.
* abbrev-start-location:                 Abbrev Expansion.
  ...
* yes-or-no-p:                           Yes-or-No Queries.
* yes-or-no questions:                   Yes-or-No Queries.
* y-or-n-p-with-timeout:                 Yes-or-No Queries.
* y-or-n-p:                              Yes-or-No Queries.

-- 
Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>