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

[Facundo Andrés Bianco <facundo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2011/4/25 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.
>

Okey, them are good reasons.

And there are many tools instead google for do it, I think.

Best,

-- 
Facundo Andrés Bianco
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