[TxMt] Re: Searching the Objective-C documentation

[dreamcat7]

On 6 Jan 2009, at 03:15, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 1 Jan 2009, at 14:56, dreamcat7 wrote:
>
>> [...] searches on Apple Docset [...]
>> To access this feature you must type in and select the word into your
>> document before proceeding.
>
> You needn’t select it, just have the caret “on it”.
>
>> However it strikes me that adding an alternative method to use the
>> script (probably a Search box) could be useful.
>
> Great idea. I often type in keywords followed by ⌃H, but we could
> make ⌃H popup a dialog when there is no current word (or word is not
> found), we do that for ⌃H in HTML mode (and maybe a few others).
>
> We can’t really do a list of terms (to filter) though since there  
> are
> thousands of terms and we don’t really know them beforehand.
>
>> Or perhaps we will need some kind of re-write because there another
>> place at the beginning of the file where "the selected word" is used
>> for input?

So we can keep the selected word as the initial input , check if  
selected word is an empty string right?
If there is no selected word *then* add a routine to open the search  
box. - great!

I dont know any ruby but will try something this week to get the  
interest going.
(No bell or whistles, probably very rudimentary)

>>
> Yeah, I don’t think it is an easy change, also because we have
> different doc commands depending on context in Objective-C. The stuff
> is long overdue for refactoring though.
>
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