NewHelpSystem & man pages

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Apr 24 20:43:51 PDT 2009


On Apr 24, 2009, at 21:02, markd at macports.org wrote:

>> Similarly, I've almost never looked at the chunked Guide. I load the
>> single-page Guide, so that I can press Command-F, type my search
>> string, press return, and find what I'm looking for. Which isn't to
>> say we shouldn't have the chunked Guide; we should. I suppose I'm
>> saying there are trade-offs with either approach.
>
> Yes the single page guide is very useful for searching.  If we  
> could get a
> good index in it somehow that make searches unnecessary that would  
> make
> the one-page version obsolete, but I'm not sure how feasible that is.

We could add a "site:guide.macports.org" Google search box to the  
Guide pages which might work too. There's ways to make it work either  
as a single full page or chunked.



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