Re: [Jed-users-l] JED: Add search to docs

[Doug Kramer <doog@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Because the alternatives are so difficult.   I wanted to find "evalfile" in
the reference manual <http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/doc/jedfuns.html> (which
ended up being the wrong place to look, but as a newbie, I didn't know about
slang), which is 25 web pages long.

So I tried these:

1) Googled for [evalfile jed] which didn't find it.

2) I went to the first page <http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/doc/jedfuns.html>,
didn't see it in the table of contents, but thought there might be a
reference to evalfile somewhere, so I did a page search (Command-F), clicked
"Next", did another page search, repeated this for all 25 pages.  (I didn't
realize at first it would be this many pages.)

3) Then I just used the google "site:" property:
[site:www.jedsoft.org/ evalfile]
which found the page <http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/doc/html/slang-16.html> in
the S-Lang manual.

Why not short-circuit this procedure and just offer a search box for the
website on every page.
New software is hard enough to learn without having to jump through hoops to
find stuff.

-Doug


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Facundo Andrés Bianco <facundo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> 2011/4/24 Doug Kramer <doog@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I request that you add a search box to your web pages at jedsoft.org(and
> > other doc sites)
> >
> > http://www.google.com/cse/tools/create_onthefly
> >
>
> Why?
>
>
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