[fpc-pascal] Permuted index (KWIC) of function descriptions

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> As a comparative beginner, I still find myself stumbling across RTL functions 
> that I've previously hand-coded.
>
> Is there an easy way of generating a complete permuted index from the 
> one-line descriptions of the functions in the RTL (and optionally FCL and 
> LCL)?

Shortly said: no.

>
> For example, can I rapidly get all function descriptions with "space" as part 
> of the description, which could subsequently be filtered (e.g. if I were 
> interested in text operations I could quickly ignore anything with "file" in 
> the description)?
>
> Copy2Space     Returns              first space character
> Copy2SpaceDel  Deletes              first space character
> DelSpace       Delete                   a space from
> DelSpace1      Reduces                 of space characters
> DelSpace1      Reduces                  1 space character
> IntToBin       Converts         inserting spaces at
> IsEmptyStr     Check     disregaring whitespace characters
>
> That's somewhat abbreviated so that it's not screwed too badly by wrap.

Creating such an index requires additional keywords, which are simply not
present now.

That said, I am still looking for a good search engine *written in Object
pascal* for the FPC html docs. Any hints/tips are appreciated.

Michael.