[plt-scheme] 399: how to get the internal helpdesk browser?

We are working on the search capability. You're not the only one  
who's feeling bad about losing it. -- Matthias



On May 9, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Prabhakar Ragde wrote:

> Yavuz Arkun wrote:
>
>> Indeed, I remember this being a particular bugbear of me until it  
>> was fixed in 3.99 series. I was getting distracted by the  
>> discordant look of the internal browser and rendered text compared  
>> to the rest of my desktop.
>
> It's also discordant for me when I choose Help Desk in 3.99.0.23  
> and get switched to my browser, meaning I have to switch back. I'm  
> sure I'll get used to it. Harder to deal with is the loss of search  
> capability. There's no search box in the top level help document.  
> The master index is huge and slow to load even though it's a local  
> file and I have a fast laptop. A search yields just a bunch of  
> index entries without context; I have to hover my cursor over each  
> one and look at the "status bar" in my browser to try to guess what  
> section of what manual it will take me to by deciphering the  
> displayed URL. I think the overall scheme of the documentation is a  
> great improvement from 3xx, but it's a work in progress, clearly. --PR
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