Op 1 maart 2012 14:28 heeft Hans-Peter Diettrich <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > Vincent Snijders schrieb: > >> Op 1 maart 2012 08:12 heeft Graeme Geldenhuys >> <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: >>> >>> On 1 March 2012 02:22, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: >>>> >>>> The results are very strange. Entering "documentation" finds almost all >>>> pages, because these have this keyword in the headline and navigation >>>> menu. >>> >>> >>> It even finds result pages where the entered word doesn't appear >>> _anywhere_ in the wiki page. Not the header, not the navigation, not >>> the body. See my example about "freebsd" and the tiOPF result page. >>> >>> The wiki is utterly useless and broken!! If you don't know the >>> directly link to what you are looking for, chances are you will never >>> find it. >> >> >> I guess you mean: I cannot use the wiki. Or: the index page doesn't >> work like a search page. Or: the textbox on the index page doesn't >> work like I expect. >> >> In that case, you should not use the wiki, but it is not broken. > > > Either case indicates the lack of a description, required to use an existing > feature. This is one more example of the different viewpoints of > implementors and users. When an implementor *believes* that no documentation > is required, he may be the only one who ever uses his great invention.
Lack of reading the label, or lack of understanding what means "Display pages starting at:" Remember: this is the *index* page. The text part asks you what part of the index to show. > > >> >> If you type in freebsd, it shows a page with all pages whose name >> start with freebsd > > > No such pages exist, all names start with a capital letter. False: e.g. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fcl-base > > >> or are later in the alphabetically, case sensitive >> sorted index of pages. > > > What is "are later"? All pages starting with 'g'..'z'? Yes, but not A .. Z and a .. e. > > >> It doesn't say anything about the contents of >> the page, just about its name. > > > This finally makes some sense. Glad you understood. Vincent -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
