Re: How might I filter documentation being searched?
Re: How might I filter documentation being searched?
- Subject: Re: How might I filter documentation being searched?
- From: Erik Stainsby <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:20:42 -0700
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the thought. I find Dash childishly ugly, and I have to say that AppKido seems inside-out as a new user aide: it presents the hierarchies as the primary model for the new user. This seems strange because the naiive new user of Objective-C doesn't know where in the hierarchies to start looking for any given object. Too much space is required also by the out-dated drawer. I think it may be time for you to remodel the app.
$0.02
~ Erik
On 2012-08-03, at 3:39 PM, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
> Dash, a doc browser by kapeli.com, addresses this issue elegantly. You can specify a prefix that you type before your search term that indicates which SDK you want to search. Thereafter it assumes you want to keep searching that SDK and supplies the prefix for you. You can always manually delete the prefix or switch it to a different SDK. I use "m:" for Mac stuff and "i:" to mean iOS stuff.
>
> You can also try my two apps: AppKiDo (which is for Cocoa, and only shows one SDK of your choice) and AppKiDo-for-iPhone (which only shows iOS docs) -- they're at appkido.com.
>
> I've blogged a few times about both apps at notesfromandy.com.
>
> Both apps support searching from anywhere via a system service, which you'll want to map to a hotkey using System Preferences.
>
> --Andy
>
> On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Erik Stainsby <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>>> From: Erik Stainsby <email@hidden>
>>> Date: 3 August, 2012 1:54:50 PM PDT
>>> To: XCode <email@hidden>
>>> Subject: How might I filter documentation being searched?
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm finding it increasingly frustrating that I am getting four responses to keyword searches in the Documentation browser for every search. I am only developing for OS X at the moment, and all the iOS docs are irrelevant to my needs. I'm still getting duplicate hits for 10.7 and 10.8 but I can live with those I guess.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to make the documentation browser search on only one or two of the available docsets? Perhaps even make the document search aware of the build target version? Now that would be a nifty feature.
>>>
>>> ~ Erik
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
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