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: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:46:48 -0700
On Nov 3, 2010, at 14:14, Jerry Krinock wrote:
> 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?
Or, search for the term at developer.apple.com. Recently, the presentation of the search results has been improved. It now shows a summary of the titles of the documents (as opposed to listing essentially duplicate hits), and classifies the titles by type (into, conceptual, reference, etc).
I've used this quite a few times in the last couple of weeks, and each time I was surprised how directly it took me to the result I was looking for.
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