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apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variable
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:40:07 +0900 |
Drew Adams writes:
> Users should be able to find and use commands that give them info about (a)
> all vars, (b) all functions, (c) just commands, and (d) just user options;
> and the names of those commands should reflect what they do.
FWIW, XEmacs has had `C-h a' bound to `hyper-apropos' (dunno if this
exists in Emacs) which returns all variables and functions with
non-void values and function cells respectively, for a decade now,
with no complaints about verboseness that I can remember.
> Similarly, we should rename `set-variable' to `set-option' and define a new
> `set-variable' command that sets any variable, not just a user option. (I
> have defined such a command in my own code, but I just call it
> `set-any-variable', for now.)
Why not just make `setq' interactive?
- apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Drew Adams, 2007/10/19
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Andreas Röhler, 2007/10/19
- apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/21
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/21
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/21
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/23
- RE: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Drew Adams, 2007/10/23
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/25
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/26
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/27
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/23
- Re: apropos commands for commands, user options, all functions, all variables, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/25