Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:14:04 -0600
> 
> The fundamental discoverability problem with Emacs isn't that the
> documentation is missing -- it never is.  The problem is, if you want
> to find something by keyword, first you must guess the keyword that
> the original author used.
> 
> I don't know a good way to solve this problem.

Well, we could add a feature whereby documentation search commands
will suggest to look for alternative keywords.  This feature could use
a database of synonyms for computer-related terminology, as well as
popular alternatives for certain Emacs parlance (such as "yank" etc.).

This way, if you didn't find what you wanted, you'd be presented with
a list of additional words or phrases to search for.