Jack - this is an important and long-standing question. We've kicked this around at NYCJUG meetings without coming up with a very good answer. The wiki is increasingly useful - it might be more so if there were a "keywords" section that listed relevant phrases, such as common synonyms, not found in the text of the wiki page.
For instance, I was looking for some J code to wrap lines of text beyond a certain length. I thought I had seen such code but I couldn't find it, so I ended up writing something quick and dirty. Later, I found an essay by Roger where he solved this same problem (much more elegantly, of course). However, I couldn't find this piece by searching on the first several phrases that came to mind. I need to add a wiki page about this to make it easier for other people in the future. (See how hard it is for you to find this page now). This sort of self-help is much more labor-intensive than a mechanically-generated index but may be the best solution over time if we can reach a critical mass of people updating the Wiki. On 1/31/08, Jack Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > is there a plan for tidying up system/extras/help/index? > it seems that there was a good index at one stage. > now, it's hard to know where to go for different topics. > is google desktop the answer? (or grep -r ?) > or a fancy built in help search in the interpreter? > jack > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
