The thread [Improving the documentation: Roadmap, community 
engagement](https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8091) reminded me that I am curious, 
how people search the _current_ Nim documentation:

Say, I want to remind myself how tables work and I am already on a Nim 
documentation page, e.g. [sequtils](https://nim-lang.org/docs/sequtils.html). 
So I use the search box on that page and type "tables".

This brings up a result page with many, many definitions related to "tables". 
The first result is
    
    
    tables: `$`[A](t: CountTable[A]): string
    
    
    Run

The next 20 results look very similar. Of course, they link to different 
functions/operators, but, hey, I just want to start with general information 
about tables. So I click the first result, because I can see it is in the 
`tables` module. This brings me to the description of the `$` operator, two 
thirds down the `tables` page.

I want to read the introduction to tables though, so I scroll all the way up to 
the top of the page and finally I find what I'm looking for.

This happens a few times a day when I _as a Nim starter_ look up basic stuff in 
the documentation - and it feels a bit tedious. What do other (beginner) people 
do? Is there a quicker way to get to core concepts of the standard library? 

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