Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

>> On the other hand, I want to look at and search my user-defined
>> functions FREQUENTLY. I don't care about the system functions. If I
>> type \df a*, it's not because I want to see all 6 versions of the
>> absolute value function and 61 other functions, it's because I don't
>> want to think hard enough to remember how I spelled the first word in
>> one of my functions that I know starts with "a".
>
> Well, maybe we do need to go with the \df \dfS \dfU approach.
> But I'm still convinced that setting things up so that it's impossible
> to search both classes of functions together is a seriously bad idea.

I agree - that's one thing that's definitely weird about the new
behavior. Of course, we've had this problem with \dt for a while, but
it is somewhat masked by the fact that \d (without t) behaves
differently (which seems totally strange too, come to think about it).
I think maybe we should make \dt, \df, etc. show user objects, \dtS,
\dfS, etc. show system objects and pick some other glyph to mean
"everything". \dfA, \df!, I don't care what it is...

...Robert