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startup message could mention apropos or `?"..."` for text search

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#37,523 opened on Sep 11, 2020

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Description

Recent discussions on Discourse suggest that not all users know about apropos (or equivalently, using ?"..." for text search). The startup message currently mentions

Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.

I suggest that text search is added to this, but I am still looking for a compact way of phrasing it.

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Research direction
Locate the startup message in Julia's source code (likely in base/replutil.jl or similar) and append a phrase about using `apropos` or `?"..."` for text search.
Tech stack
julia
Domain
cli
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1
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Julia
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80