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

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

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

> Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> In our previous episode, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be said:
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> Categorization of routines (string,file etc) would be a good place to 
>> start.
>> I have thought about this before (for chm), but while the CHM format
>> supports this (building e.g. a list of string routines over multiple
>> independantly compiled CHMs), the Windows viewer's support for this is too
>> basic, and the *nix viewers are even worse.
>> 
>> It seems to be functionality intended for MSDN that never was finished
>> because of the move to later formats.
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> CHM has a basic phrase indexer, and it operates on the html. The search 
>> part
>> is maybe part of the viewer, and one would have to see how complex it is. 
>> (Iow if the complexity is in index or search, if the search is relative
>> simple one could look at kchmviewer)
>
> I used something called Perlfect Search for a while- which might fulfil 
> Michael's criterion if Lazarus could handle Perl plugins :-)

The criterion is: *written* in object pascal. 
Not 'callable from Object pascal' :-)

And I will rather spend an eternity in hell than use a perl tool... ;)

Michael.