Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.