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Re: Apropos commands and regexps
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Apropos commands and regexps |
Date: |
Sat, 18 May 2002 09:31:55 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden
> Date: 17 May 2002 23:56:33 +0200
>
> Actually your first example finds 67 matches on my emacs.
>
> Your second example is an unfair comparison, as my proposal was that
> at least two matching words should be required. This can be illustrated
> by (apropos "\\(find\\|file\\).*\\(find\\|file\\)") which finds 74 hits.
>
> So I don't see the big difference...
FWIW, I think both 67 and 74 hits are too much. It takes too much
time to wade through such a long list; many users will give up before
they get to the end.
I think we need to find some way to make the search more efficient
than that.
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, (continued)
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Alex Schroeder, 2002/05/20
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Stefan Monnier, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Kim F. Storm, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Miles Bader, 2002/05/16
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/17
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/18
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/19
- Re: Apropos commands and regexps, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/19