Re: finding stuff

[Jean Louis]

* Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> [2021-02-28 10:40]:
> On Sun 28 Feb 2021 at 06:20, Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> 
> wrote:
> > I think a way of searching all those things would be useful.  As others
> > have mentioned there are separate ways of searching most of them.  I
> > think "info-apropos" is the most useful for your wishes.
> 
> info-apropos looks interesting.
> 
> I just have to be careful what do I search for.  For example
> 
>    (info-apropos "local variables:")
>    (info-apropos "Local Variables:")
> 
> gives: No matches found.
> 
>    (info-apropos "local variables")
> 
> Gives good links.

It would be good to have a cross platform general search engine that
would find any similar terms and also work with various languages.
But we do not have such.

Sometimes avoiding plurals may find more results. Of course removing
any punctuation is advised, but the underlying search engine should
be doing that work.

I just guess that excess spaces should be removed by the underlying
program. But I don't think that 

(info-apropos "local  variables")
works same as 
(info-apropos "local variables")