On Apr 17, Robby Findler wrote:
> I think we tried this (with the currently available search
> narrowing) and found we had people the were very confused about why
> they could not get teachpack docs.
>
> Perhaps instead of narrowing the search e could have a mode where
> any hit in a given manual would show up before any other results
> (maybe in another color too)?
Yes, that goes with the first bullet: it would be nice to find some
query syntax that will make the results show in a different order.
That's significantly more work though.
(As for color -- that's more difficult, since it just renders the html
that scribble produces -- no interfering with it.)
> > 1. The kind of things that you can do with search quesries are
> > limited, specifically, there is no way right now to write an `or'
> > query. (IIRC, this was the main problem with the student
> > languages.)
> >
> > 2. The interface for dealing with these context queries (showing the
> > current context, clearing it, and editing it) is probably
> > suboptimal. This is at least my own guess based on the fact that
> > almost nobody is using it.
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