[plt-scheme] documentation feature requests

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 18 15:55:49 EST 2009

My pattern is similar: search. If that fails, start at the Reference.

My understanding is that examples were kept out of the Reference and
put into the Guide. I guess in a system where the primary mode of
access is search this doesn't really work out.

N.

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Lee Spector <lspector at hampshire.edu> wrote:
>
> I usually get into the documentation with searches, either with esc-F1 to
> search for the currently selected symbol or by selecting "Help Desk" from
> the Help menu (in Mac OS X) and then doing a search from there. When search
> fails I'm pretty frustrated and then start hunting through the docs from the
> ToC. BTW my searches often fail because my search term doesn't occur in a
> defined symbol name, or whatever else the searches search, even if it occurs
> in the documentation itself. It'd be nice to have searches that search over
> all of the text in the documentation, at least optionally.
>
>  -Lee


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