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to: Neil Heller
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2003-11-29 10:50:56
subject: [--- EMacs ---]

Hi Neil.

27-Nov-03 19:07:00, Neil Heller wrote to Winston Smith


 WS>> Well, doing a quick APROPOS of 'TAB', I get the following SET
 WS>> Variables and Functions:

 NH> I looked in the dictionary and found:

 NH> Function: adverb Etymology: French a apropos, literally, to the
 NH> purpose Date: 1668

 NH> What is APROPOS in the computer world.

On linux (etc) "apropos" is "man -k" it finds manual
"pages" (entries) that
containthe a given keyword in their title.

The emacs built-in apropos seems to do the same for the emacs internals

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