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Re: Apropos commands and regexps
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Apropos commands and regexps |
Date: |
13 May 2002 10:40:52 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > Wouldn't it be simpler (for a novice user -- and for advanced users
> > too) to simply write one or more words (substrings) and then search
> > for all combinations of those words (substrings) in the relevant list.
> >
> > E.g. C-h a open file RET would find any matching
> >
> > open.*file and file.*open
>
> Perhaps we should have a new command for that, and name it something like
> apropos-keywords.
I agree, but I think it shouldn't use the wierd hack on regexp syntax,
that's just confusing.
I'd say just separate the keywords by looking for commas or whitespace
or either (each `keyword' could be a regexp though). That would be
both more convenient and also more familiar to people used to using
typical keyword searches (e.g., in web search engines).
-Miles
--
Would you like fries with that?
- Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/11
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/12
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/13
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/14
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Stefan Monnier, 2002/05/16