I don't have control over the generation of some of the help files I am linking - they are from the Microsoft SDK.
I would certainly hope that every possible search term is not also in an index - an index is supposed to provide links to what the author felt were important topic headings - not an comprehensive list of every word. It also generally only links one document for a given term, rather than a comprehensive list of hits. In addition, search allows multiple terms to be used where an index does not. So if I highlight a multi-word term in a file and then press ALT-F1 I would get results that are of interest. Search would give more comprehensive results - anything that might turn up in an index, plus many more possible hits. For instance, some of the help files I link have code samples. So the index might contain a single entry to the help page for a specific method call in that language, but a search would also bring up all the code samples in the help file. I am also using PS Pad to syntax highlight log files - so it's not always simply looking up how to use an api in a programming language. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,46112,46115> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
