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: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:59:33 +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> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021636811 2620 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2002 12:00:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm), Miles Bader , rms@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 178gP5-0000g3-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 14:00:11 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 178gbY-00006X-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 14:13:04 +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 178gPK-0005RG-00; Fri, 17 May 2002 08:00:26 -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 178gOf-0005NI-00; Fri, 17 May 2002 07:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g4HBxcb05147; Fri, 17 May 2002 13:59:38 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id NAA09499; Fri, 17 May 2002 13:59:33 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 2037B3B41D; Fri, 17 May 2002 13:59:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-Reply-To: <200205162138.g4GLchM03531@rum.cs.yale.edu> ("Stefan Monnier"'s message of "Thu, 16 May 2002 17:38:43 -0400") Original-Lines: 17 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:4056 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4056 "Stefan Monnier" 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!