Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-11 Thread Jules Bean
Andrew Coppin wrote: OTOH, I recently discovered that GHCi has the ability to show you what's defined in a given module without me having to wait 40 seconds for Firefox to start... Shame you can't scroll its output. (And still no help if you're not sure of the module name.) !!! Run ghci in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-11 Thread Adrian Hey
Jules Bean wrote: Andrew Coppin wrote: OTOH, I recently discovered that GHCi has the ability to show you what's defined in a given module without me having to wait 40 seconds for Firefox to start... Shame you can't scroll its output. (And still no help if you're not sure of the module name.)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Sven Panne
On Sunday 09 September 2007 18:41, Andrew Coppin wrote: [...] Well, if I could collapse it with a single click, it would be much easier to scroll past it and get to the thing I'm looking for. I didn't say remove it, just give me the option to hide it. ;-) OK, that shouldn't be too hard to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread manu
Neil Mitchell wrotes : Replicating actual tables with CSS is a nightmare - you shouldn't use table's for lots of things, I agree but there are sometimes when it really is the best option. Which isn't the case here ! Nested lists would easily do the trick... Fixing up the CSS and still

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Brent Yorgey
Just bookmark: http://haskell.org/hoogle It's not perfect, but it probably solves lots of your problems. And if you use Firefox, you can even install Hoogle as one of the search engines in the upper-right search box. Nice and fast! -Brent ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Andrew Coppin
Sven Panne wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 18:41, Andrew Coppin wrote: Oh goodie... So it's there to keep the machines happy? No, it's there to keep *me* happy when I'm looking for a module. ;-) Well, there's over 200 modules relating to graph theory alone. (Modules that I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Andrew Coppin
Brent Yorgey wrote: And if you use Firefox, you can even install Hoogle as one of the search engines in the upper-right search box. Nice and fast! I've never really understood what the benefit of this is... I mean, Google make the Google toolbar, but what's the point? Why not just click on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:38:03PM +0200, Sven Panne wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:40, Andrew Coppin wrote: I have the following page bookmarked: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ I'd like to ask 2 things. 1. Would it be possible to make the *huge* list of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Schilling
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 20:28 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: Would it be better to have a separate page with a package index, containing the description of each package and a link to each of the modules that it provides? +1 ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Schilling
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 19:51 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: Brent Yorgey wrote: And if you use Firefox, you can even install Hoogle as one of the search engines in the upper-right search box. Nice and fast! I've never really understood what the benefit of this is... I mean, Google make the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi I've never really understood what the benefit of this is... I mean, Google make the Google toolbar, but what's the point? Why not just click on the Google bookmark and type in your search? What benefits does installing a special addon provide? You can setup firefox so in the location

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Brent Yorgey
Well, for the default Google searchbox the advantage is: Ctrl-K search phrase ENTER versus grab mouse .. point ... click ... move hand back to keyboard ... type search phrase, ENTER I never used any of the secondary search bars. Unless I can define a shortcut to access hoogle

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-10 Thread Andrew Coppin
Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi re: Hoogle not always getting it exactly right, there are a few known bugs floating around which I'm working on. Hoogle can permute the order of arguments though, so that shouldn't be a problem. It doesn't really like Monads, but I wrote Hoogle before I was aware of

[Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-09 Thread Andrew Coppin
I have the following page bookmarked: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ I'd like to ask 2 things. 1. Would it be possible to make the *huge* list of package names at the top collapsable? (That way I don't have to scroll through several pages of uninteresting text to get to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-09 Thread Johan Tibell
I agree about the top part. It's not very interesting, especially not in a document used as a reference. Perhaps we could move it to the end and provide an anchor link from the different modules down to their package explanation. A tip is to use Firefox's search as you type feature if you know

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-09 Thread Sven Panne
On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:40, Andrew Coppin wrote: I have the following page bookmarked: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ I'd like to ask 2 things. 1. Would it be possible to make the *huge* list of package names at the top collapsable? (That way I don't have to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-09 Thread Andrew Coppin
Sven Panne wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:40, Andrew Coppin wrote: 1. Would it be possible to make the *huge* list of package names at the top collapsable? (That way I don't have to scroll through several pages of uninteresting text to get to the bit I actually want.) What do

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

2007-09-09 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi I have the following page bookmarked: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ Just bookmark: http://haskell.org/hoogle It's not perfect, but it probably solves lots of your problems. A tip is to use Firefox's search as you type feature if you know the module name. This