Re: Tips on Reading TFM?
Re: Tips on Reading TFM?
- Subject: Re: Tips on Reading TFM?
- From: Greg Titus <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:22:32 -0800
On Saturday, January 5, 2002, at 04:37 PM, Matt Judy wrote:
I rarely use Project Builder's built-in documentation viewer, opting
instead for a web browser. If you use Mozilla (or Netscape 6), you can
use this handy method to execute a rapid search of the Apple Developer
Connection content. First, the setup.
[...elided...]
http://developer.apple.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?q=%s+-Java
8. Hit return or click OK. Now, click the disclosure triangle next to
your "Searches" folder. Note that your new bookmark is in it.
9. Click your bookmark, and choose File > Properties.
10. The name and location fields are already filled. In the "Keyword:"
field, type "adc". Press return or click OK. Close the Bookmarks
window.
Now, to use your new keyworded bookmark. Open a new browser window,
type "adc NSBundle" into the address box, and press return. This will
execute a search of the ADC website, and return all results matching
NSBundle, without Java results. If you also want Java-related info,
omit the "+-Java" in step #7 above. You could also create a Java
search called adcjava, or the like.
This is a nice feature of Mozilla. You can create keyworded bookmarks
for any URL, and it will replace the "%s" with whatever you type after
the keyword. Hope you find it useful.
Huh, I had no idea Mozilla did that. It's always interesting when more
than one group has the same idea. :-)
For anyone who prefers OmniWeb, we have a similar feature. It might only
be in the 4.1 betas and not 4.0.6 - not sure when it got added.
1) Go into shortcut preferences and add a new item with the plus button.
2) Make the shortcut "adc@" and the destination URL
"
http://developer.apple.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?q=%@+-Java";
(The @ at the end of the shortcut indicates a parameter is desired. It
will then replace "%@" with whatever you type after the shortcut (not
including the space).)
3) In the address box in any window type "adc NSBundle" and press
return. This will execute a search, et cetera, et cetera, as Matt
mentioned with Mozilla.
(A shortcut I highly recommend, btw, is "?@" and
"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%@";. Makes google searches extremely
convenient. Just type "? foo" to search for foo...)
Hope this helps,
--Greg