on 10/5/02 7:43 AM, David Vaughan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I think for newbies like myself, having the ability to search the >> descriptions in the Transcript Dictionary would be a useful new >> feature. :-) > > ..even for middlebies and possibly oldbies. > Did someone here once mention it can be done?
For everybies! Using the find box in the Transcript Dictionary itself, type a term and use option-enter to search through the text of entries (where enter by itself would just search the entry titles). This was new in 1.1. This steps through each occurence of the term (ie if it appears three times in one entry, option-enter will step through each occurence before moving on to the next term where it appears). The matching occurence is marked with a box - but note that it doesn't scroll the text, so unless you've opened the Transcript Dictionary into a long window, it may not be obvious. There's currently a minor bug that it queues up visual effects for each occurence, so you get multiple ones when it goes to the next entry - I believe Jeanne has already fixed this for the next release You also might want to get Geoff Canyon's stack which rips the documentation into a single big file in various formats (or the copies which people have posted) - then you can use search in these files. A thought for Jeanne, to help fill your copious free time: it might be really useful to have a version of the index in the main documentation stack (which offers a list of terms in the dictionary, filtered by matching some text in the title) - a version which filters by matching some text anywhere in the entry. So if one searched for, say, "linefeed", rather than stepping through each occurence of that word in each entry, you'd just get a list of the matching entries, so you could immediately see which ones might be relevant. I certainly wouldn't object if it took a noticeable time to build up this list - it would still be faster than the existing alternatives. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com | Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
