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apropos should add 'search thru documentation help strings too" option
From: |
Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
apropos should add 'search thru documentation help strings too" option |
Date: |
22 Jul 2001 03:29:34 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
Grown accustomed to search engines, it seemed odd that M-x apropos
seems not to offer the functionality of also being able to search thru
all the documentation strings it knows about.
E.g. if I do C-h v some_variable and see it mentions
something_interesting, And I want to see anything else in the Help
system that also mentions something_interesting, even if just in a
docstring, before I turn to the Info system, it would be nice if I
could give a certain argument to M-x apropos to 'be like google on its
database' [well, not just the DOC file] but---i think that this wish
would be a quite expensive proposition, therefor perhaps M-x apropos's
help string might mention why this 'google' functionality is not also offered.
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- apropos should add 'search thru documentation help strings too" option,
Dan Jacobson <=