Re: Search a whole "Programming Guide" for given text
Re: Search a whole "Programming Guide" for given text
- Subject: Re: Search a whole "Programming Guide" for given text
- From: Ronald Hayden <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:30:19 -0700
> Is there a better way, using Xcode's documentation viewer I hope?
I believe we had a mechanism for this in Xcode long ago, but I don't believe there's a way to do it currently. It would be useful to file a bug request for this.
-- Ron
On Nov 3, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
> Often I want to search one of Apple's "Programming Guide" documents for some given text. Note that programming guides are multiple pages (10, 20, or more) in the documentation. For example, today I want to search the "Core Data Programming Guide" for "metadata".
>
> Using the search field at the top of the the Xcode (3.2.5) documentation viewer searches all documents in the library and thus may give too many results.
>
> I've used three workarounds:
>
> • Download the PDF of the Guide and search it using a PDF viewer.
> • For Guides that are only a few pages, step through them in Xcode's documentation viewer and do a ⌘F search on each page.
> • Do a search on the internet with the document title in quotes, the search term, and site:developer.apple.com
>
> All of these seem pretty lame. Is there a better way, using Xcode's documentation viewer I hope?
>
> Jerry
>
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