On 7/10/2010 1:37 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Chris Marshall<[email protected]>  wrote:
> ...
 >
>> One thing that would be useful from the pdl.perl.org searches
>> would be information that would be useful for various completions
>> for the Perldl2 shell.  Right now things are pretty much the
>> generic completion which is not that helpful since if you are
>> command completing in pdl2, you probably want to have a PDL
>> command/method as your first choices...
>
> I really don't understand what you are saying.

If you are typing

   PDL> $a = o<TAB>

you get something like this with the Globals completion driver
loaded:

   oct          opendir         overload::AddrRef              
overload::constants
   oddmedian    or              overload::BEGIN                overload::import
   oddmedover   ord             overload::Method               overload::mycan
   oddpct       orig_badvalue   overload::OVERLOAD             overload::nil
   oddpctover   orover          overload::Overloaded           overload::ops
   one2nd       our             overload::OverloadedStringify  
overload::ov_method
   ones         outer           overload::StrVal               overload::package
   oneslice     over            overload::VERSION              
overload::remove_constant
   open         overload::      overload::constant             
overload::unimport

where I would guess that the most likely desired completion
would be:

   PDL> $a = ones(

a list of topics and methods looked up could help rank
these completions by interest level.  Similarly, if you
are in the Perldl2 shell and are using the online docs,
it might be nice if this worked

   PDL> ?sp<TAB>
   PDL> ?spheres3d


>> Another nice completion would be for documentation searches
>> which is where a log/feedback of searches in the PDL docs
>> would be *very* informative.
>
> Ok, you want a record of people's searches... I am studying Google
> Analytics right now.

I don't need to know by person, just the aggregate
sequences of searches.  Even the sequence of topics
would be a useful for this purpose.  If we know that
this was a common search sequence:

   xxx -> yyy -> zzz -> tada!

That could give us ideas where the docs and completion
features could be modified to enhance the PDL experience...

--Chris

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