Re: Self Documenting Interfaces

[Tom Vogt <tom lemuria org>]

Joachim Schlesener <jos@tp.heise.de> wrote:
> Great idea. I think the help browser should be aware of highlighted text.
> And it should search through all availible documentation resources
> (man, info, html, faqs, pdf, ...) by itself and present a list of all found
> places with short description a la whatis. Could possibly be realized
> with a WWW search engine (?)

takes too long. hash databases, man or locate style. just extend the
database that already exists for manpages to include everything else.


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