[plt-dev] help

Partition the index, do testing on users.

What do you want to do?

Stephen

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> Where do we stand with context-sensitive search in drscheme?
>
> I am in Beginner, I type 'image', and I get results on the first page that
> have almost nothing to do with the htdp/image library except for
> alpha-color-list->image, a concept that I am unlikely to even use in a
> typical 211.
>
> Another example concerns Module, and I am looking for 'keyword'. The first
> few entries don't look like what I want. So "Declaring Keyword Arguments"
> and "Keyword Arguments" look like the right thing. I open both and I start
> reading two strangely related but not quite the same doc pieces. What's
> going on? I can't see the margin note at the top of the page that mzlib/kw
> isn't compatible with the new stuff.
>
> I am recounting these stories from my perspective but they didn't happen to
> me.
>
> We need to improve this search somehow. -- Matthias
>
> P.S. I am so used to the kind of results I get and what I have to look for
> that I didn't even see the problem until someone else rubbed my nose in
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Stephen

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