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Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22 |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Nov 2005 06:32:57 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:57:38 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Are you sure that most newbies are accustomed to _your brand of_
> keyword search: at least two alternatives in any order, with no way to
> specify other requirements, _and_ with plenty of forbidden characters,
> that are natural in an Emacs context, like `*', `.' `+'?
Whether newbies are accustomed to this remains to be proven, but the
characters ``natural in the Emacs context'' above come from an
experienced user.
> In the keyword searches that I am familiar with you can enclose the
> keywords in quotation marks to force sequential in order occurrence.
That's an advanced feature, you know.
> I believe that after your change, newbies _still_ will have to learn
> about regexps to accomplish what they are used to in search engines.
Please explain why you think so.
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, (continued)
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/05
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Kim F. Storm, 2005/11/05
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/05
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/05
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/05
- RE: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Drew Adams, 2005/11/05
- RE: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Drew Adams, 2005/11/05
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/05
- RE: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Drew Adams, 2005/11/05
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/05
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, David Kastrup, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Alan Mackenzie, 2005/11/07
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/11/07
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/11/07
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/07