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Re: Why do apropos commands match only pairs of words in a word-list pat


From: Nicolas Richard
Subject: Re: Why do apropos commands match only pairs of words in a word-list pattern?
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 07:21:07 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
> Instead of matching each word in the list you provide it, apropos
> commands match each pair of words from the list.

> Why is this the design?  Wouldn't users more typically want *each*
> of the words they type to be matched?

My own experience is that I both sometimes liked and sometimes hated the
behaviour. Often the latter, though. I think it would be nice to sort by
relevance (e.g. the number of words that matched). How easy/difficult
would that be ?

-- 
Nicolas



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