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3.2.3 apropos-documentation

• ‘C-h d’

Function: apropos-documentation pattern &optional do-all ¶

Show symbols whose documentation contains matches for PATTERN. This function lists its results in order of relevance by default. To list them in alphabetical order, change apropos-documentation-sort-by-scores to nil.

PATTERN

‘PATTERN’ can be a word, a list of words (separated by spaces), or a regexp (using some regexp special characters). If it is a word, search for matches for that word as a substring. If it is a list of words, search for matches for any two (or more) of those words.

Note that by default this command only searches in the file specified by ‘internal-doc-file-name’; i.e., the etc/DOC file. With C-u prefix, or if ‘apropos-do-all’ is non-nil, it searches all currently defined documentation strings.