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bug#41021: [PATCH] New command apropos-function


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: bug#41021: [PATCH] New command apropos-function
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:23 -0400

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  > >From looking at that list, I have concluded in the past that there is
  > no way to search for functions, but only interactive commands.  This
  > is not a bad first approximation, I think, based on seeing the list of
  > completions.  Only upon reading the docstring of 'apropos-command'
  > will you understand that this conclusion was wrong.

If defining apropos-function would help some people get started on
Lisp programming, I think that is well worth defining one new command.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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