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Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism |
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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:54:27 +0200 |
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>> 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