Re: BUG: apropos.el/hyper-apropos.el hate C++

sb> I know escaping the plusses works, but it's unintuitive. It's almost sb> certain that two consecutive plusses in that context are being used to sb> hunt for C++ support. sb> If it's going to puke and die anyway, why not filter the regexp through sb> something that escapes two consecutive plusses? Being too clever is the road to ruin. 10 years ago, some folks tried to write `dwim'[1] shells that would correct the user's typos and run the actual command the user intended. Even the authors of those tools eventually gave up using them. Footnotes: [1] Do What I Mean