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Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:54:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> While I'm here, keywords are good when you need to show a list of
>> "topics" to structure the set of packages, but we probably also need
>> a way to "search".  Problem is that we don't have a search engine in
>> Elisp, so we'd have to rely on an external tool for that.
> The simplest search engine we could use for packages is apropos,
> i.e. implement `apropos-package' to work like `apropos-documentation'
> and match package names, descriptions and keywords.

I guess that can done and might work OK.
But I was thinking of searching the Commentary sections, where we'd need
something smarter.


        Stefan



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