Why not allow people to submit name:url associations for dman?

Jesse Phillips jessekphillips+D at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 08:19:24 PST 2012


On Monday, 30 January 2012 at 11:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/30/2012 12:04 AM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
>> I've found myself using dman more than I thought I would, but 
>> it is a little
>> annoying when it fails to find a page and I navigate to it 
>> manually -- I
>> wouldn't mind if I could improve dman for the next release.
>>
>> Perhaps a text file on GitHub we could submit pull requests to?
>
> I decided against a text file that dman reads because, 
> inevitably, people will have problems with dman not finding 
> that file, or finding the wrong one, etc. I thought it would be 
> more bulletproof if it was a standalone executable.
>
> Definitely its internal database, though, is too small.
>
> Eventually, it should have everything in it that has an html 
> anchor name on the web site.

Couldn't it be a text file that is compiled in with import()? Or 
a d file with a single function containing add(name, url); for 
each entry. Some stand alone and easy to read/edit.


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