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Re: Apropos commands and regexps
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Apropos commands and regexps |
Date: |
15 May 2002 20:23:35 +0900 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Are you suggesting all apropos commands should work by keywords
> instead of by regexps?
The way I envisioned it was all apropos commands taking _list_ of
regexps (separated by whitespace/commas), and applying them in an `and'
manner. That way, the case where each element is a simple word word
would act like a typical keyword search, and the case where there's
only one entry would act like the current single-regexp implementation.
Given the particular nature of apropos usage in emacs, I think there
wouldn't be any conflict in practice from using whitespace/commas as
the list delimiters.
There might also be other things we can do, like if a term begins with
an alphabetic character, anchor it with \<. [anchoring the end is
probably not a good idea, because people often expect searches to match
prefixes, I think.]
-Miles
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- Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/11
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/12
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/13
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/14
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Stefan Monnier, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Stefan Monnier, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/19