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From: | Uday S Reddy |
Subject: | Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs |
Date: | Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:27:32 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 |
On 4/21/2010 7:23 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Apropos searches the docstrings (which tend to describe the actual code), so it will work well if you know the exact term used inside Emacs to refer to your functionality. But if you happen to use another term, it often fails miserably. The manual writers OTOH make a conscious effort to mention not just the precise term used inside Emacs but also the more generic terms that are related to it.
Gosh, that explanation should be printed in bold font, framed and posted in every Emacs-user's wall! Cheers, Uday
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