From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
storm@cua.dk, miles@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:02:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafvg9kgxbj.fsf@INBOX.auto.emacs.devel.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205182224.g4IMOKh13995@rum.cs.yale.edu> ("Stefan Monnier"'s message of "Sat, 18 May 2002 18:24:19 -0400")
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu> writes:
>> For instance all the talk about adding "synonyms"
>> seems to be unnecessary if you consider that an Info-index search will
>> already provide that kind of thing.
>> Could you please give a concrete explanation of what you mean?
>
> C-h i m emacs i paste RET
> will make you jump to the glossary where it says "see killing and yanking",
> so the user should then know to search for `yank'.
This won't work for more complicated queries, only for the
single-word case. What happens when the user searches for "cut
line"? The fact that "cut" is mentioned in the glossary won't help
so much. (I assume that "cut" is mentioned in the glossary.)
kai
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-19 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-12 0:57 Apropos commands and regexps Kim F. Storm
2002-05-12 5:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-12 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-13 1:40 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-13 19:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-14 5:55 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-13 19:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-14 5:38 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-15 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-15 11:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-15 21:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-16 1:26 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-16 22:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-16 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-17 11:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-18 18:48 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-18 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-19 12:02 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2002-05-19 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-19 15:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-19 19:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-19 23:33 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-20 9:50 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-16 21:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-17 12:01 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-17 21:56 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-18 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-18 22:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-17 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-17 11:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-16 4:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-16 22:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-16 21:20 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-17 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-18 18:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-19 4:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-19 19:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-19 23:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-20 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-16 20:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-15 21:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-16 4:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <5xbsbf4thx.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
2002-05-17 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-12 10:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-12 17:03 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-13 19:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-14 5:26 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-16 11:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-16 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-16 13:05 ` D. Goel
2002-05-16 22:37 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-16 22:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-17 19:28 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-18 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-19 5:30 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-23 21:41 ` Kim F. Storm
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