Re: HelpViewer - Was Re: GAP repo mirror on git...

Patrick CARDONA <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:47:30 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.general
Message-ID <29a154bf49a76de4746beead34d129d4@pi500>
Hi Riccardo,
Hi Lars,

Thank you both for the work done. I understand better it was a huge 
one.

On 2026-03-09 18:14:16 +0100 Riccardo Mottola 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Patrick CARDONA wrote:
>> Nothing changes on Search...
> sorry, no work there yet.

Search can wait. ;-)

> 
>> Well, maybe it is we can open now several .help files with their own 
>> windows...?
> 
> Yes that is it. It looks like a small thing, but required a huge 
> amount of 
> restructuring in the code and showed up several weak spots, static 
> variables.... it is not perfect now, but much better. Was a lot of 
> "thought" 
> how to do it... still not like it 100% but it works.
> 
> You can now have recent menu (although it doesn't enable properly.. 
> must ask 
> Gregory for help there possibly, since there is no activation option 
> for such 
> menu)
> 
> Parser, handlers need to be essentially re-entrant code. Probably 
> there is 
> more to be done, but happy and proud do where I came with Lars.
> 
> Riccardo
> 

Cheers,
Patrick

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