Bug#583349: "++" (as in C++) is not well handled by dhelp
On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:12:58 +0200, John Gruenenfelder wrote: The ++ characters are not properly handled by dhelp in a couple of places. The first is in the document index. I have "The C++ Annotations", a C++ primer, installed. I used dhelp to browse to it, but this failed when my browser attempted to access http://localhost/doc/c++-annotations/html/index.html and could not find the files. This is because ++ is parsed by the browser and the resulting URL looks something like ".../c -annotations/..." which doesn't exist. The fix is, I suppose, to use the correct HTML element for the + character. Yes, my bad. I was calling a function to escape the URL, but it didn't escape all characters it seems :-( Now it should be fixed. I have just uploaded dhelp 0.6.19 addressing this. The other problem is rather minor, but dsearch, which *does* handle ++ properly, has a string limit which requires the search string to be at least four characters in lengths. This prevents anyone for looking for all C++ documentation on the system. I realize it is on the main index, but the search string length should probably be lowered to three characters. I don't think I've ever found a way to lower that limit. Actually, looking at index++'s source code, it seems that the limit is hardcoded in config.h. If you know or find a way to lower the limit, tell me and I'll change it. It's something that sort of bugs me too. Thanks, -- Esteban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#583349: "++" (as in C++) is not well handled by dhelp
Package: dhelp Version: 0.6.18 Severity: normal The ++ characters are not properly handled by dhelp in a couple of places. The first is in the document index. I have "The C++ Annotations", a C++ primer, installed. I used dhelp to browse to it, but this failed when my browser attempted to access http://localhost/doc/c++-annotations/html/index.html and could not find the files. This is because ++ is parsed by the browser and the resulting URL looks something like ".../c -annotations/..." which doesn't exist. The fix is, I suppose, to use the correct HTML element for the + character. The other problem is rather minor, but dsearch, which *does* handle ++ properly, has a string limit which requires the search string to be at least four characters in lengths. This prevents anyone for looking for all C++ documentation on the system. I realize it is on the main index, but the search string length should probably be lowered to three characters. -- --John GruenenfelderSystems Manager, MKS Imaging Technology, LLC. Try Weasel Reader for PalmOS -- http://weaselreader.org "This is the most fun I've had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" --Sam of Sam & Max -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dhelp depends on: ii doc-base 0.9.5 utilities to manage online documen ii libcommandline-ruby1.8 0.7.10-10 Ruby library to write command-line ii libdata-page-perl2.02-1 Help when paging through sets of r ii libdb-ruby1.80.6.5-6 Interface to Berkeley DB for Ruby ii libgettext-ruby1.8 2.1.0-2.1 Gettext for ruby1.8 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.65-1 collection of modules that parse H ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 Using libc functions for internati ii libtemplate-perl 2.22-0.1template processing system written ii liburi-perl 1.54-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii perl-modules 5.10.1-12 Core Perl modules ii poppler-utils0.12.4-1PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii pstotext 1.9-4 Extract text from PostScript and P ii ruby1.8 1.8.7.249-3 Interpreter of object-oriented scr ii swish++ 6.1.5-2 Simple Document Indexing System fo Versions of packages dhelp recommends: ii elinks [www-browser]0.12~pre5-2 advanced text-mode WWW browser ii galeon [www-browser]2.0.7-2.1+b1 GNOME web browser for advanced use ii iceweasel [www-browser] 3.5.9-3 Web browser based on Firefox ii links2 [www-browser]2.2-1+b2 Web browser running in both graphi ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.8dev.3-3 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-4 WWW browsable pager with excellent Versions of packages dhelp suggests: ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.15-5 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n ii catdvi0.14-11+b1 DVI to plain text translator ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 advanced HTML to text converter ii info2www 1.2.2.9-24 Read info files with a WWW browser ii man2html 1.6f-3 browse man pages in your web brows ii w3m 0.5.2-4WWW browsable pager with excellent -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
