Comments on: Full text searching in Info mode with Apropos

By: Vedang

Vedang — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:42:06 +0000

Thanks! This is going straight into my .emacs.

By: phil

phil — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:30:42 +0000

If you’ve not played with the info reader much, then two other terribly-useful things for Finding Stuff in the info manuals are:

1) The index. Upper- and lower-case i are bound to the index search commands. I find the former more useful, myself. Indexes are manual-specific.

2) Interactive search. C-s will first search within the current node, but if you type it again after the first failure, it will go on and search other nodes within the current manual, taking you to whatever the next match is.

info-apropos is different in that it searches all manuals.

By: phil

phil — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:29:59 +0000

I use the following bindings for the various apropos commands:

;; Custom 'apropos' key bindings
(global-set-key (kbd "C-h C-a") 'Apropos-Prefix)
(define-prefix-command 'Apropos-Prefix nil "Apropos (a,d,f,i,l,v,C-v)")
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "a")   'apropos)
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "C-a") 'apropos)
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "d")   'apropos-documentation)
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "f")   'apropos-command)
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "c")   'apropos-command)
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "i")   'info-apropos)
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "l")   'apropos-library)
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "v")   'apropos-variable)
(define-key Apropos-Prefix (kbd "C-v") 'apropos-value)

And, of course, if I forget what any of those letters mean, C-h at the prompt details the bindings.

By: The Emacs Info Apropos Command | Irreal

The Emacs Info Apropos Command | Irreal — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:26:54 +0000

[...] not already on the proper node. Now Mickey over at Mastering Emacs has written an excellent post on Full Text Searching In Info Mode With Apropos that showed me how to solve that [...]

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:10:26 +0000

apropos-zippy!