Ok, I've tried to make it clearer in the manual pages commit 1fe2484545
> On Feb 11, 2017, at 4:19 PM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, but that may make mathematical sense ... > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Simple damping line search. > > > The default damping is one. > > > > On Feb 11, 2017, at 1:21 PM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 11, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > The web page for linear search seems to be wrong for basic, right? > > > > What is wrong with this? > > > > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/SNES/SNESLINESEARCHBASIC.html > > > > > basic turns line search off. I hope. > > > > yes > > > > > > This is where the bad quote comes from: > > > > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/SNES/SNESLineSearchSetType.html > > > > > > > > > Mark > > > > > >
