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Re: Apropos commands and regexps
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: Apropos commands and regexps |
Date: |
13 May 2002 21:11:11 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> On 12 May 2002 address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Apropos command (regexp):
> >
> > which may be nonsense to some novice users.
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > BTW, this obvious example doesn't find `find-file' :-(
> > Maybe we should have a defalias open-file -> find-file ?
>
> Perhaps we should have a new command for that, and name it something like
> apropos-keywords.
I disagree.
IMO, the purpose of the various apropos commands are to find
(let's call it) "interesting information".
To fulfill that purpose, all apropos commands should
a) be easy to use - especially for the novice user
b) accept the same type of "search patterns".
I think giving the apropos commands a keyword based interface is a
good way to accomplish (a), and having an specific apropos-keywords
command breaks (b).
Also, what would apropos-keywords look for? `commands', `variables'
`documentation', or "all of the above" ?
++kfs
- 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 <=
- 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
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Stefan Monnier, 2002/05/18