Re: ConTeXt source browser website update

[Willi Egger <context@boede.nl>]

This is really a nice interface! Thank you so much for all this work!

Willi

> On 7 Jun 2020, at 16:25, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just replaced the software of https://source.contextgarden.net/ by a Lua implementation that uses Hans Hagen’s SciTE lexers for syntax highlighting and a Lua-generated search index.
> 
> There is no official documentation yet (because I may want to change some stuff still) but here is some relevant information:
> 
> * The search field uses a Lua string pattern to match a single word (no multi-word search as of yet). 
> 
> See https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.4.1 for the syntax of lua string patterns.
> 
> * The search index only contains 7-bit ASCII ‘words’ that contain at least one of 'a-zA-Z’ (writing an LPEG for unicode matching is a tricky and probably would be quite slow even if I could make it work). 
> 
> Still, this should be ok-ish because most of the ConTeXt source is ASCII, except for the interface files.
> 
> * The files context-en.xml, mtxrun{.lua}, and all of the files in the tex/context/patterns subtree are skipped in the search index. Also skipped are words shorter than 3 bytes, lua keywords, and words having more than (approx) 1500 hits
> 
> * On the plus side, because of the SciTE lexer, “contextversion’ and “\contextversion” are separate entries in the search index. And you can search for “\@@kldirection”.
> 
> * For text file types that have no SciTE lexer there is no syntax highlighting, and binary files are ignored altogether.
> 
> The rest of the interface should be self-explanatory.
> 
> Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
> 
> 
> Index statistics:
> 
> 4085 files processed, 178 skipped, 3744 with matches
> 120733 words found
> 119154 words exported to word.idx
> 37928 comment words found
> 36880 words exported to comment.idx
> 26756 documentation words found
> 26018 words exported to docs.idx
> 
> The word.idx is roughly 11 megabytes.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Taco
> 
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