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Re: Apropos commands and regexps
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Apropos commands and regexps |
Date: |
15 May 2002 23:59:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > Are you suggesting all apropos commands should work by keywords
> > instead of by regexps?
>
> The way I envisioned it was all apropos commands taking _list_ of
> regexps (separated by whitespace/commas), and applying them in an `and'
> manner. That way, the case where each element is a simple word word
> would act like a typical keyword search, and the case where there's
> only one entry would act like the current single-regexp implementation.
I don't like the "and" approach -- at least not as the default.
(see my previous posting for the rationale).
>
> Given the particular nature of apropos usage in emacs, I think there
> wouldn't be any conflict in practice from using whitespace/commas as
> the list delimiters.
Comparing to WEB search engines, I don't think that separating
keywords with commas is common practice...
>
> There might also be other things we can do, like if a term begins with
> an alphabetic character, anchor it with \<. [anchoring the end is
> probably not a good idea, because people often expect searches to match
> prefixes, I think.]
Consider searching for "grep" -- shouldn't that return "igrep" ?
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/11
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/12
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/13
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/14
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/15
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Stefan Monnier, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Stefan Monnier, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/19