Re: Systematic implicit aliases for option variables

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > If you give it `occur', it would recognize that that is an alias
  > > for `list-matching-lines', and show you the options pertinent to
  > > `list-matching-lines'.  You wouldn't need to know that `occur'
  > > is an alias.
  > > 
  > > I think the hard part of this would be adding a data base to find the
  > > custom groups that are pertinent to any particular command.
  > > 

  > Sounds like a natural extension of customize-apropos, which we already have?

Could you explain how it relates to customize-apropos?  That selects
options purely on their names -- the feature I request would select
them based on semantics.

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