{"id":9960,"date":"2021-09-07T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2021-09-07T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:26:39","slug":"apropos-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9960","title":{"rendered":"Apropos Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a post by <a href=\"https:\/\/jao.io\">jao<\/a>, who\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/jao.io\/blog\/hacking.html\">written a whole bunch of excellent software<\/a>, popped up in my feed inbox. It\u2019s just a very short (15 words) <a href=\"https:\/\/jao.io\/blog\/2021-09-04-apropos-library.html\">mention of apropos-library<\/a>, a function that lists all the variables and functions in a library. It can also be configured to show the keybindings for the functions.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it\u2019s been around since Emacs 23 but neither jao nor I were aware of it. It seems like a useful facility. Even though you won\u2019t need it often, it\u2019s easy to see how it could be really useful in certain circumstances. It\u2019s already installed so give it a try to see how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a post by jao, who\u2019s written a whole bunch of excellent software, popped up in my feed inbox. It\u2019s just a very short (15 words) mention of apropos-library, a function that lists all the variables and functions in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-9960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}