[Dlang-internal] [Documentation] Add copyable text "import ..." under title

Sebastian Wilzbach seb at wilzba.ch
Sat Feb 8 14:19:09 UTC 2020


Hi Andrey,

This has been tried before in 2016: 
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1330

You might be able to reuse some parts of this PR.

Cheers,

Seb

On February 8, 2020 13:05:39 Andrey via Dlang-internal 
<dlang-internal at puremagic.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have an idea. Let's add on all pages in documentation that
> describe some importable entity (function, class, template...) in
> place under the title a special <p></p> field with text: "import
> ..." and a button "Copy to clipboard" near that copies that text.
>
> For example let's take the page
> "https://dlang.org/library/std/uni/is_upper.html" for function
> isUpper.
> Under the title "Function std.uni.isUpper" we add <p></p> field
> with text:
>> import std.uni : isUpper;
> and a button.
> User will press that button, copy import instruction and after
> that can paste it in his code.
>
> I think this enchancement will be useful.
> Imagine that you search in docs for some function/class/template
> etc. To use it you must import it your code. What you will do? -
> copy text in title "std.uni.isUpper". Then you will write word
> "import" with space and paste in code, then remove last dot and
> write " : ". Finally will write semicolon.
>
> Press one button and after CTRL+V is better and faster from my
> point of view.
>
> What do you think?





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