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Re: Apropos commands and regexps
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Apropos commands and regexps |
Date: |
20 May 2002 01:29:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > > I don't like the "and" approach -- at least not as the default.
> >
> > I'm afraid anything else will bring too many hits.
> >
> > The rule that at least two of the keywords must match
> > should not bring too many hits, I would think.
>
> An example with two words discussed here brought about 70 hits, which
> IMHO is too many.
If those two words are find and file, there *are* 70 commands which
contains both words ... how do you suggest emacs should decide which of
those to show (if you insist that 70 is too many)?
>
> Moreover, I think a rule based on the number of matched keywords is not
> good enough, since sometimes even one word is enough to yield a very
> accurate result. Try "M-x apropos bell RET", for example.
So does M-x apropos RET ring bell RET :-)
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, (continued)
- 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
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/16
- Message not available
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/17
Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/12
Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/16