[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) wrote on 24.01.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> No. For a keywords-based help system it's very important that the > keywords for each document are right. A full-text search, or a search > based on summaries or keywords invented for some other purpose, > doesn't work at all well. Well, yes and no. A system like man -k is certainly nice, but sometimes the user's and the indexer's ideas about keywords simply don't match, and a grep-like full text search would be very nice to have. This means a three-level system: 1. Use official names of things. 2. Use prepared keywords. 3. If all fails, do a full text search. This should probably be controlled by the user - if I make a simple typo asking for 'lila' instead of 'lilo', I don't want to wait for a full text search. Of course, if that search should happen to be fast enough ... MfG Kai
