Improved Phobos dox
Andrei Alexandrescu
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Sun Sep 15 11:02:11 PDT 2013
On 9/15/13 4:32 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 9/15/13, Vladimir Panteleev <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:
>> I'm not sure this is an improvement, functionally.
>
> It's not an improvement at all. Ctrl+F doesn't work with this (like
> you mentioned)
Again, that would be nicer done with an inline search box. We don't have
to support the exact navigation mode in the new API. One obvious
drawback of ^F working is that all symbols are there in sight.
Vladimir, do you think you could easily implement such an incremental
search box (with autocompletion)?
>, and the items list is not even sorted
> alphabetically(!), so now we have to hunt down a symbol before we can
> jump to it. Also, what used to be just one step (click), now becomes
> more (click, scroll, click).
Sorting can be done, I thought natural order would impart some logic to
the list.
> The categorical table at the top of
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html is what I prefer the most,
> we could implemented this on other pages.
Sure. My goal with this upgrade is to get rid of the unsightly bag of
words at the top of most pages.
Andrei
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