[Lazarus] Missing Documentation

Marc Santhoff M.Santhoff at web.de
Thu Mar 1 16:53:02 CET 2012


Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012, 14:28 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
> Vincent Snijders schrieb:
> > Op 1 maart 2012 08:12 heeft Graeme Geldenhuys
> > <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> >> On 1 March 2012 02:22, Hans-Peter Diettrich  wrote:
> >>> The results are very strange. Entering "documentation" finds almost all
> >>> pages, because these have this keyword in the headline and navigation menu.
> >>
> >> It even finds result pages where the entered word doesn't appear
> >> _anywhere_ in the wiki page. Not the header, not the navigation, not
> >> the body. See my example about "freebsd" and the tiOPF result page.
> >>
> >> The wiki is utterly useless and broken!! If you don't know the
> >> directly link to what you are looking for, chances are you will never
> >> find it.
> > 
> > I guess you mean: I cannot use the wiki. Or: the index page doesn't
> > work like a search page. Or: the textbox on the index page doesn't
> > work like I expect.
> > 
> > In that case, you should not use the wiki, but it is not broken.
> 
> Either case indicates the lack of a description, required to use an 
> existing feature.

That's true. The easy solution would be to write some short rules above
or below the search field, about how the index search works.

I'd like to see a reminder, tending to forget this works a bit
different...

-- 
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>





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