I don't think it is an easy problem to solve. Postgres has a single user manual with a massive index at the back. It is easy to find stuff in there because all of it is in one document. Users can append comments to each page to help others. But someone had to write that manual.
The problem I find with the J documentation is that there are too many documents to look at (labs, phrases, dictionary, wiki, forum, JAL, the books, more?), there is no single source to turn to. Google can restrict the search to specific directories, which cleans the search up a bit: trim site:www.jsoftware.com/help But one still needs to enter the J terminology in place of VB/Excel terminology (trim whitespace). Somehow I find myself on this page: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/script_strings.htm But the word "user" in the top right, which I want to press to peruse other functions that are not to do with strings, is not clickable. This is a pity because I know that somewhere there is a long list of useful programs, which again I only found at random rather than it being thrown at me (which is a pity because it brings together many man-days of programming useful functions): http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/sys_lista.htm I do not know why it is called sys_lista.htm though. 2009/6/16 Raul Miller <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Dan Bron<[email protected]> wrote: >> There has to be a decent solution for this. How do other languages do it? > > Imperfectly. > > But most have more than one site which can be searched. > > Meanwhile, I wonder if google's search engine will rank searches based on > links > from off-site, during a site-specific search? > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
