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

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Jan 29 11:19:37 CET 2011


In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
> >> That's the problem with CHM viewers, they are all in varying states of
> >> what they support or how good they perform at such tasks. Linux alone
> >> has about 5 or more CHM viewers, and they are all pretty crap in their
> >> own way.
> >
> > Did I miss something? Does the .INF viewer in the textmode IDE
> > spontaneously
> > support search now?
> >
> > IOW, the situation with .INF is exactly the same :-)
> 
> Well, I believe that the point made by Graeme was primarily related to
> existence of good CHM viewers for Linux, not to the format itself (this
> time at least ;-) ) 

I run the textmode IDE on Linux. It is fine :-)

> Nevertheless, having the support of searching added also to our IDE would
> be indeed nice. ;-) Proper support for IBM .INF documents (including the
> OS/2 API documentation) in his viewer would be very nice too. ;-)))

For some of the new features I have to work around the current helpsystem.
But I'll try to set that up with some base class that queries for
capabilities. Then if pigs fly, and sb works on those formats, they can
implement it.



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