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Re: Apropos commands and regexps
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Apropos commands and regexps |
Date: |
17 May 2002 06:58:32 +0900 |
address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > `and' is the defautl for all search engines that I've used, and has the
> > advantage of being simple and easy to understand.
>
> A quick test shows that Google, Yahoo, Lycos uses AND
> while Altavista, Excite, AskJeeves uses OR.
>
> For WEB search engines, I think AND does make sense -- since there
> are SOOOO many pages to match. But for a limited universe like
> emacs -- which doesn't always use the most obvious terms --
> using AND doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
`or' is clearly wrong; even in emacs' `limited' universe, it generates
way too many hits.
E.g., (apropos "\\(find.*file\\|file.*find\\)") gets about 50 hits,
whereas (apropos "\\(find\\|file\\)") gets over 700!
Maybe your idea of `at least N matches' is a good compromise.
> > No, but it's common practice in writing lists.
>
> I don't see the relevance, sorry. But of course, we could ignore
> commas in case people use them...
That's the point. I wasn't suggesting that they be required.
> We could put a "button bar" at the top of the apropos output with
> the following buttons:
>
> [Match all words] [anchored match] [search documentation]
That seems like a good idea in general; I'd even like the ability to do
other sorts of apropos searches, e.g., in a command-apropos buffer,
have a button that does a variable-apropos on the same search terms.
-Miles
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- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, (continued)
- 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
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Alex Schroeder, 2002/05/20
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Stefan Monnier, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/17