Re: new apropos feature in Emacs-22

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:54:00 -0800
> 
> Most of the discussion has centered on _how_ to obtain the syntax and
> behavior of both the old (regexp) and the new (keywords) apropos at the same
> time, in the same command - not on whether or not that is desirable.

That's because everybody agreed that it was desirable.  There was no
need to discuss that about which we were in almost perfect agreement.

> So, I repeat the question:  _Why not_ leave the apropos commands as they
> were, and create new, more "novice user-friendly", keyword-search commands?
> The question deserves some reply, at least. It should have been addressed
> before launching a discussion of _how_ to change the existing commands.

This question was asked and answered.  I posted the URL here.