GNU bug report logs - #1484
23.0.60; Apropos output: <v> etc.?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:15:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 1484-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: <1484-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#1484: 23.0.60; Apropos output: <v> etc.?
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:23:58 -0800

> > Glad the report helped. But what are the long and short 
> > forms? Is that documented somewhere (didn't see anything
> > in NEWS)? Should the (short form) Apropos buffer explain
> > that abbreviated notation?
> 
> C-h v apropos-compact-layout

A user is unlikely to know about this. How about mentioning this change in NEWS
or even documenting it in the Emacs manual?

Also, the variable should be autoloaded. In emacs -Q, C-h v doesn't recognize it
until you load apropos.el.
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