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From: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: manual all on one HTML page
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:24:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pdy988306240826c25b4951493c@[192.168.1.2]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430061326.GA4961@sc.homeunix.net>

At 07:13 AM +0100 2007-04-30, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:49:07PM -0700, Dave Yost wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> There really should be an all-on-one-page HTML manual.
>>
>> I tried to look for the exec command using the current divided-up
>> HTML and couldn't find it.
>[...]
>
>That's the biggest problem with the HTML format.

The one-page format makes simple searches easy using the browser.

Also: the broken-up HTML is nicely searchable with a Google using the "site:" feature, like this:
  foo site:zsh.org/doc/one-page.html

Dave

>That's why
>there exist more advanced formats like the "info" formats. The
>info format is inspired from books. There is a table of content
>and an index, both searchable with completion, and the whole
>document can be searched as well.
>
>See the "g", "i", "m", "s" keys in info.
>
>Typically:
>
>info zsh
>iexec<Tab>
>
>--
>Stéphane


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-30  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-30  0:49 Dave Yost
2007-04-30  2:17 ` Phil Pennock
2007-04-30  5:24   ` Dave Yost
2007-04-30  6:13 ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-30  7:24   ` Dave Yost [this message]
2007-04-30  8:01     ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-30 19:15       ` Dave Yost
2007-04-30 20:51       ` Phil Pennock
2007-05-01 14:09         ` Stephane Chazelas

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