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bug#59248: 29.0.50; apropos lists keywords as if they were variables
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#59248: 29.0.50; apropos lists keywords as if they were variables |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:09:43 +0200 |
> From: Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt>
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:56:09 +0100
>
> On a very recent (about yesterday) Emacs from HEAD, apropos lists
> interned keywords as undocumented variables. Eg, the following
> invocation:
>
> M-x apropos RET distant-foreground RET
>
> displays the following output:
>
> > Type RET on a type label to view its full documentation.
> >
> > :distant-foreground
> > Variable: (not documented)
> > Value: :distant-foreground
>
> This is technically correct --- keywords are variable-ish
"M-x apropos" is not just about variables. It's about any symbol that
matches a regexp.
> but quite useless. At best, keywords just add noise to `apropos`
> output. At worst, they may be misleading, since an user may assume
> they can somehow control something by setq'ing a keyword.
How can Emacs know that the user didn't actually _want_ to look up a
keyword? It is not impossible.