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Re: Documentation frustrations
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Re: Documentation frustrations


  • Subject: Re: Documentation frustrations
  • From: Carlos Salinas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:14:34 -0700

Also, the SearchKit technology is not applied consistently. "API Search" behaves differently than "Full-Text Search" -- a fact I think, first of all, should be made clearer, because the strong natural assumption is that they work the same. From what I can tell, API Search only uses prefix searching (not general wildcards), and only a single search term. So there is no way to discover, for example, APIs related to HTML -- something that gets asked about on this list from time to time.

I think that the labeling for the search command should be a verb rather than a noun. So instead of "API Search" the label would be "Search API", and likewise "Search Full-Text".


To clarify, I would like to type "HTML" in the API Search field and have the results include -initWithHTML:baseURL:documentAttributes:.

That would be way useful (that's one reason why the old Digital Librarian in all its simplicity trumps XCode's documentation search).
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 >Re: Documentation frustrations (From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: Documentation frustrations (From: Andy Lee <email@hidden>)
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