From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:02:24 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5xbsbj9834.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205150700.g4F70rr16163@aztec.santafe.edu> <87ptzxmz7s.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <5xoffhoywn.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5xg00r4tlo.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205162138.g4GLchM03531@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200205181848.g4IImEW21971@aztec.santafe.edu> <200205182224.g4IMOKh13995@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021809776 23940 127.0.0.1 (19 May 2002 12:02:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 12:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , storm@cua.dk, miles@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 179POq-0006E1-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 14:02:56 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 179PcH-00070x-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 14:16:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 179PP7-00083o-00; Sun, 19 May 2002 08:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 179POa-00082E-00; Sun, 19 May 2002 08:02:40 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g4JC2Wb24114; Sun, 19 May 2002 14:02:32 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id OAA04340; Sun, 19 May 2002 14:02:25 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 052F83B41D; Sun, 19 May 2002 14:02:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-Reply-To: <200205182224.g4IMOKh13995@rum.cs.yale.edu> ("Stefan Monnier"'s message of "Sat, 18 May 2002 18:24:19 -0400") Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4117 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4117 "Stefan Monnier" 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 -- Silence is foo!