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Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22 |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:43:51 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:45:11 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> cc: address@hidden
>
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> With the current code, ".emacs init file" will trigger a regexp
> >> search, whereas a newbie user unfamiliar with regexps might have
> >> expected the usual "at least two matches" behavior.
>
> >A search engine quite frequently brings unexpected matches, based on its
> >convoluted heuristics. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with that phenomenon
> >because you tend to use quoted phrases (which defeat those heuristics),
> >but it's normal for majority of users I've seen.
>
> I don't think this is an attribute that Emacs should emulate.
We are not emulating any behavior, we just get hit by the same
problems as other search engines.
> Surely an Emacs user should be able to formulate a search criterion
> without having to jump through hoops of dwimmyness, without the
> uncertainty of not knowing how Emacs interprets his search string. As
> David Kastrup points out, these uncertainties come up in search strings
> that will be used all the time, not occasional things that will occur
> once in a blue moon.
You are talking about something completely unrelated to what I was
saying. While that's okay, why start it by quoting me?
- RE: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, (continued)
- 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, 2005/11/05
- 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 <=
- 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
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Kim F. Storm, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Kim F. Storm, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/07
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/07
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, David Kastrup, 2005/11/06
- Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/11/05