From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:43:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1x1sfat4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1051107093140.339A-100000@acm.acm> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:45:11 +0000 (GMT))
> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:45:11 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> With the current code, ".emacs init file" will trigger a regexp
> >> search, whereas a newbie user unfamiliar with regexps might have
> >> expected the usual "at least two matches" behavior.
>
> >A search engine quite frequently brings unexpected matches, based on its
> >convoluted heuristics. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with that phenomenon
> >because you tend to use quoted phrases (which defeat those heuristics),
> >but it's normal for majority of users I've seen.
>
> I don't think this is an attribute that Emacs should emulate.
We are not emulating any behavior, we just get hit by the same
problems as other search engines.
> Surely an Emacs user should be able to formulate a search criterion
> without having to jump through hoops of dwimmyness, without the
> uncertainty of not knowing how Emacs interprets his search string. As
> David Kastrup points out, these uncertainties come up in search strings
> that will be used all the time, not occasional things that will occur
> once in a blue moon.
You are talking about something completely unrelated to what I was
saying. While that's okay, why start it by quoting me?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-07 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-05 3:15 new apropos feature in Emacs-22 Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-05 15:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-05 17:33 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-05 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-05 20:38 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-05 22:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 23:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-05 23:18 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-05 23:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 23:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-05 23:31 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-05 23:36 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-05 23:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-05 23:21 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-06 1:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 4:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-06 5:36 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-06 17:22 ` David Kastrup
2005-11-06 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-06 18:31 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07 9:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-11-07 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-11-07 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07 21:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-06 20:16 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 22:54 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-06 18:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-06 19:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-07 7:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-07 21:55 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-06 9:19 ` David Kastrup
2005-11-05 17:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-06 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-06 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-06 19:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-05 23:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-06 0:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-07 15:34 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-07 17:54 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-07 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-07 19:25 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-07 22:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-07 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-07 22:59 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-08 4:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-08 4:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-08 12:48 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-08 23:53 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-09 0:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-11 7:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-11 9:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-11 10:57 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-11 16:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-12 3:38 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-12 3:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 17:49 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-12 3:36 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-14 4:55 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-15 0:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 23:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-17 7:38 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-17 10:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-09 23:25 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-10 5:44 ` Richard M. Stallman
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