Re: Apropos commands and regexps

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 12 May 2002 address@hidden wrote:

>         Apropos command (regexp):
> 
> which may be nonsense to some novice users.
> 
> 
> Wouldn't it be simpler (for a novice user -- and for advanced users
> too) to simply write one or more words (substrings) and then search
> for all combinations of those words (substrings) in the relevant list.
> 
> E.g. C-h a open file RET  would find any matching
> 
>         open.*file and file.*open
> 
> BTW, this obvious example doesn't find `find-file' :-(
> Maybe we should have a defalias open-file -> find-file ?

Perhaps we should have a new command for that, and name it something like
apropos-keywords.