Re: Apropos commands and regexps

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     C-h i m emacs i paste RET
>     will make you jump to the glossary where it says "see killing and 
> yanking",
>     so the user should then know to search for `yank'.
> 
> Still, it would not hurt if apropos knew this too
> and used the knowledge automatically.

In case the user enters M-x apropos RET paste RET, it would make more
sense if the response is an informative message:

 Note: Emacs uses the term "yank" for pasting text into a buffer.

It could then offer to search using "yank" instead of "paste".

This would have the benefit of teaching the user the proper terms.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk