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Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22


From: Luc Teirlinck
Subject: Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:31:27 -0600 (CST)

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

   > _And_ because sometimes you might want to search for keywords
   > containing characters that happen to be special in regexps, say
   > .emacs, .mailrc, whatever.

   A regexp ".emacs" will find a literal ".emacs", so this is not a big
   problem.

With the current code, ".emacs init file" will trigger a regexp
search, whereas a newbie user unfamiliar with regexps might have
expected the usual "at least two matches" behavior.

Sincerely,

Luc.




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