Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Kris]

"Guillaume B." <guillaume.b.spam at sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
news:fninp6$fma$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Kris wrote:
>
>>
>> Try this page:  http://dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/current/
>>
>> If you have your browser set to search as soon as you start typing, then
>> it is surprisiing efficient to locate a module of interest. With FireFox 
>> I
>> type a few letters and hit return. That gives me the doc generated via 
>> DMD
>> and CandyDoc (with function links on the left), and if I want to see the
>> current source code I can click on the big blue title at the top of the
>> page. Perhaps the links from that page should open another tab, so the
>> index page remains visible?
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> That's exactly what I do: type for a module name from that page and open 
> it
> in a new tab. It gets more complicated when the class I'm looking for 
> isn't
> obvious from the module name. For example, tango.io.Conduit
> returns "OutputStream"... without a search (with google), it's hard to 
> tell
> that it's within tango.io.model.IConduit.
>
> Maybe the Tango API could be added to gotapi: it doesn't seem hard to add
> new API (see http://www.gotapi.com/contribute/ ... The trick is to 
> generate
> the XML... no idea if it could be easily done with dmd doc... I'm not
> affiliated in any way with gotapi by the way) but I have no idea if they
> will accept it. If they do add it, it could help with D and Tango
> visibility (Phobos could also be added!). There might be other API search
> site like that too but I know only this one.
>
> Guillaume
>

I'm not familiar with gotoapi, but it sounds like a great tool!  Now I need 
to ask Robert Fraser (and co) if Descent could perhaps generate the 
appropriate XML doc for this ...

Thanks again ... this is a great suggestion.