Re: Apropos commands and regexps

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:02:24 +0200
> 
> > C-h i m emacs i paste RET
> > will make you jump to the glossary where it says "see killing and yanking",
> > so the user should then know to search for `yank'.
> 
> This won't work for more complicated queries, only for the
> single-word case.  What happens when the user searches for "cut
> line"?  The fact that "cut" is mentioned in the glossary won't help
> so much.

The same problem will happen if the user searches for "yank line".
So I'm not sure what is your point; it is quite clear that some of
the searches will fail to find all the keywords, and will have to do
something smart about that.

> (I assume that "cut" is mentioned in the glossary.)

The Glossary has "cut and paste".