Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philippe Vaucher <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 13:52:09 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, Richard Stallman <address@hidden>, Emacs developers 
> <address@hidden>
> 
>  > Because alist is controversial let's take "C-h d regexp match": it does 
> not give me string-match nor
>  > match-string.
> 
>  ??? It does here.
> 
> It's listed at the 1293th lines! I have to scroll for ages, while passing by 
> `magic-mode-regexp-match-limit` or
> `char-fold-to-regexp`. Surely this cannot be a good solution.

It can, if someone needs such a general search.  For looking up
functions, I think my proposal to look just in the arguments and the
first line of the doc string will be more efficient.

And index search in the ELisp manual is also a good tool in this case.