No it's not ideal, because it needs a basic understanding of the wiki as a tool in itself. Google search will do it, too.
I don't have the knowledge to write a specialized search app sitting on top of MoinMoin. I don't believe that would be successful anyway, whoever did it. It's hard to improve on Google for a usable search engine, and we don't need yet-another poor one. All I've done is what's easy: to press the existing tried-and-tested tools into service. No, that wasn't a search-box on the CategoryTerms page. I only put it there as a convenience (mainly mine). Clearly it's confusing people, so I've removed it. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian, > > IMHO the CategoryTerms scheme.isn't very intuitive. I tried to type in the > word "assignment" in the Category search box, and I got nothing. I'm still > not sure how you expect the CategoryVoc thing to work. > > I was envisioning a simple search box in the upper right corner of all J > doc pages. You type in a common programming term like "assignment", and you > get a list of doc pages (from NuVoc, Voc, Primer. JforC etc.) each page of > which will have information about how J assigns values to variables. For > that matter, you should be able to type in the symbol '=,' or the J name > for assignment, and get the same list of links. Anything much more complex > than this, simply won't get used. > > Skip > > If I didn't know ahead of time from your email, I would have never > guessed that I could type in > > Skip Cave > Cave Consulting LLC > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Check out CategoryTerms > > ...there's a clear(?) link to it from the bottom of NuVoc > > > > It would be good to get early feedback on: is this the way to go? > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > It is good to be able to search the docs. > > > > > > Have options what to search. > > > > > > Addons, utilities, helps, examples, > > > demos. > > > > > > Search on or offline. > > > > > > Good to be able to have the option to include code in the search > strings. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
