From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm), Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
rms@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Apropos commands and regexps
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:59:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafvg9nyogq.fsf@INBOX.auto.emacs.devel.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205162138.g4GLchM03531@rum.cs.yale.edu> ("Stefan Monnier"'s message of "Thu, 16 May 2002 17:38:43 -0400")
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> This discussion focuses too narrowly on apropos for my taste.
> Of course, you may argue "it's because that's what the subject says",
> but truly I think that if we want to spiff things up, we had better
> do something that searches through var names, fun names, docstrings
> and the manuals. 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.
I started writing documentation.el. The idea was to search all
documentation that's available to Emacs: symbol names, docstrings,
info files, man pages, ... I wish I had time to pursue this project :-|
kai
--
Silence is foo!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-17 11:59 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 [this message]
2002-05-18 18:48 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-18 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-19 12:02 ` Kai Großjohann
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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