Re: Is Phix the new de facto standard for Eu programmers?
- Posted by petelomax Jan 26, 2021
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...surely it is ten times better than https://openeuphoria.org/docs/ - I mean, look at it honestly.
No, and for one reason: search.
Remind me, how do you do a search on https://openeuphoria.org/docs/ (and no, I am not being sarcastic or flippant!)
Give me search, Pete!
erm, https://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/134957.wc ??
OK, I have now downloaded Euphoria-4.0.5-html, since I know that you do get a search on a local copy, and taken a look at index.html and search.js.
I can tell you it is case sensitive, exact-only, and indexes no more than 2045 terms, many of which are title phrases such as "As a first programming language",
which only works at all for that exact full and correct case input, even one character out and it's "not found" time.
In comparison phix.chm has 2774 single-word terms in the index, you typically get the right page half way through typing, plus it actually has a real and semi-decent[1] search,
so for instance "external" turns up eleven potential page matches in phix.chm, vs. zero on Euphoria, even though I chose that specifically because it was right there in front of me.
[1] while the index is kinda auto-complete, the search is exact-whole-word-only, which is what I meant by "semi-decent", eg "xternal" gets nothing, as of course does Eu.
So, again, why is the search function in the Euphoria docs any better?