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Re: Apropos commands and regexps
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Apropos commands and regexps |
Date: |
Sat, 18 May 2002 09:26:56 +0300 |
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:28:32 -0600 (MDT)
>
> But the search
> for these words should allow them to be substrings of words. It should
> not require an exact match against an entire word in the command name.
Substring search might yield too many hits, I'm afraid. I'd suggest
instead to use a list of synonyms; e.g., `buffer' might have
`iswitchb' and `ibuffer' as its synonyms. A list maintained by humans
should be more accurate than a substring search done by a program.
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, (continued)
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, D. Goel, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Alex Schroeder, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/17
Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/23