Chunked guide

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 22, 2008, at 04:38, Randall Wood wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jul 22, 2008, at 03:42, Randall Wood wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 20, 2008, at 09:34, markd at macports.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The only "problem" with the chunked version is you can't
>>>>> do a browser search of the whole document, but I'm not sure how  
>>>>> many
>>>>> people want that.
>>>>
>>>> I was initially going to suggest making a chunked guide because  
>>>> it's
>>>> what I'm used to from other projects like php and mysql. But since
>>>> then I've found it convenient to have it all on one page. I do use
>>>> the browser search feature to quickly determine whether or not the
>>>> guide mentions a particular topic at all before filing an  
>>>> enhancement
>>>> request.
>>>>
>>>> I can learn to live with a Google search instead. If we make the
>>>> chunked guide the default, we should provide a Google search box
>>>> which searches just guide.macports.org.
>>>
>>> Why not place this across all MacPorts sites?
>>> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=011837386708472035020:5lqtx6zp3qw
>>
>> Searching across more than just guide.macports.org does not answer  
>> the
>> question "Is this in the Guide?" It doesn't even answer the  
>> question "How do
>> I use this?" For example, I might want search the Guide for  
>> "build.dir" to
>> see what the default is. But using your search, I get a bunch of  
>> tickets
>> where build.dir is mentioned, which is not what I wanted. If we  
>> remove the
>> single-page Guide, or make the chunked Guide the preferred Guide,  
>> then we
>> need to provide a way to search it, and only it.
>
> Are the topical searches within results not showing the guide? (Now  I
> just need to figure out how to get a topical search to be the default
> one...)

You mean the part after I do my search where it says:

Refine results for foo: Guide Tickets Changesets Ports Wiki

Honestly I hadn't seen that until now. It works fine when I click  
"Guide".

Still I'd rather not search over everything, then have to refine my  
search. I want the right search from the beginning. I guess I can  
type "more:guide" into the search box. It would be easier if there  
were a drop-down menu where I could select how I want to refine the  
search right at the beginning.