Re: Indexing Euphoria HTML Documentation for context sensitive help
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 19, 2012
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A few years ago I was in hog heaven. If I needed help regarding a Euphoria word, all I had to was hit one key and and a specific article describing the function of the word popped up in a browser window, almost before my finger left the key. <snip>
A few years ago all i had to do was ask Tiggr. She not only had the help files indexed, but all contributions in the RDS archives were indexed too. Tiggr built the index file. I could pop up the help file and instances of how people used the word. I could pop up what apps used any certain include file. Etc..
I was there, in 2008. I was impressed that you managed to come up with a working system from nothing in a day or two.
It's one of the many things i deleted from Tiggr when i was laughed at for having wasted my time on such a thing.
I don't recall anyone laughing. I do recall leaving my computer for 5 minutes (I had to pee!) and then coming back and seeing you had asked and then decided to delete everything while I was gone.
This was back when RDS wouldn't have enough space to put it on the http pages, so i set it up on irc.
How much time will you waste to set up something half as encompassing as i did?
eukat
There are technical difficulties with using IRC bots exclusively for that functionality (such as the difficulties of putting a web page on the web to search or allowing others to do off-line searches), which leaves the door open for other approaches to spring up and co-exist side-by-side.
