Re: Documentation frustrations
Re: Documentation frustrations
- Subject: Re: Documentation frustrations
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:19:31 -0400
On Jul 9, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
On Jul 9, 2005, at 3:09 AM, Carlos Salinas wrote:
Back in the day (NeXTSTEP, a decade ago now) we had a simple
application that you could use to search through all the
documentation, all the example code, all the header files, and
other folders (such as your source code). The hits were presented
in a simple, clean list - no gobs of white space between rows or
organizing goop. In the same window below that list was a text
field. Selecting an item in the list displayed the matching
document in the text field below. Simple. Dumb. Stupid. Yet it
worked well.
Yup, it was called Digital Librarian and it was one of the
indispensable secret weapons that made NEXTSTEP development such a
superior experience. Today there is MTLibrarian: <http://
www.montagetech.com/main_librarian.html>, which I have found useful
in the past for searching example code, headers, my own source --
exactly the stuff you mentioned. Of course there are also other
search technologies like Spotlight and a freeware app called
EasyFind. Somehow none of them feel as handy and smooth as DL, but
maybe that's just nostalgia.
the Documentation window in Xcode now provides everything that
DL did, and more.
when you search you're searching the current documentation on
your machine, as well as the sample code, technotes etc. updated
information on the web (typically sample code and technotes that come
out on a different schedule than tech pubs has) is also searched.
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