[racket-dev] Potential search improvement

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue May 29 11:47:38 EDT 2012

Four hours ago, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> A few minutes ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> > Eli Barzilay wrote at 05/29/2012 07:17 AM:
> > > I have made a possibly useful improvement to the JS search code.
> > > It's not pushed, yet, but I dropped the revised JS code on the
> > > pre-built pages so you can try it out here:
> > >
> > >    http://pre.racket-lang.org/docs/html/search/
> > >    
> > [...]
> > 
> > Eli, looks like a noticeable improvement over 5.2.1 search to me so 
> > far.  Thank you for working on this.
> > 
> > Here's a small quirk on "pre": searching for "scribble" doesn't get
> > the Scribble manual as the first hit, but the incremental search as
> > you're typing gets you the Scribble manual as the first hit for
> > "scri" through "scribbl".
> 
> That looks like a bug...

...which was apparently there before too.  Fixed now.

(But that entry is not really helpful.)

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