apropos inconsistancy

apropos inconsistancy

[Tim Johnson]

:-) Don't ask me to speak the subject before I have my coffee.

Seriously, Apropos on emacs sometimes gives me much less than Xemacs
does. More often certain items that appear in xemacs do not appear
in GNU emacs (with apropos) , whereas ch f will match them.

Here is an example:
c-h a split <ret>

  Xemacs shows me 'split-string
  emacs does not

Could it be be that I have a misconfiguration in my emacs
setup that interferes with apropos?

Thanks
tim

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Re: apropos inconsistancy

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>:

| :-) Don't ask me to speak the subject before I have my coffee.

We only ask that you spell it.  8-)

| Here is an example:
| c-h a split <ret>
|
|   Xemacs shows me 'split-string
|   emacs does not
|
| Could it be be that I have a misconfiguration in my emacs
| setup that interferes with apropos?

Could it be that you have not read the documentation for apropos?

C-h k C-h a

And could it be that you haven't tried prefixing the command thusly?

C-u C-h a split

Nah, that couldn't be.  Enjoy your coffee.

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* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell

Re: apropos inconsistancy

[Tim Johnson]

On 2006-10-22, Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> wrote:
> + Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>:
>
>| :-) Don't ask me to speak the subject before I have my coffee.
>
> We only ask that you spell it.  8-)
>
> Could it be that you have not read the documentation for apropos?

 Help on Help?
 
> C-h k C-h a

 Eureka!

> And could it be that you haven't tried prefixing the command thusly?
>
> C-u C-h a split
>
> Nah, that couldn't be.  Enjoy your coffee.

 Now I don't have to leave Xemacs open ...
 thanks
 cheers
 tj

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