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From: lrs@esl.esl.com (Lynn Slater)
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Subject: apropos with full descriptions
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Date: 20 Mar 89 17:03:21 GMT
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>   does any such utility exist, or has someone wrote a function to run
>  describe-function iteratively on the output of an apropos?

Super-apropos comes with a 'quick-apropos look-alike to apropos that
does what you request.  Also, unlike the distributed apropos,
super-apropos uses lisp functions exclusively.  It is much easier to
modify super-apropos to custom needs than it is to recreate apropos in
lisp.

-- Lynn
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