Re: improving the help system

Should be easy to do.

When a search is performed, a lambda is being created
that contains a regex-seek. The lambda is applied
to all manual entries.

You would need to change the regex-seek to only look into the first
word after the paren (if the entry is an s-expression).

This lambda is created in function apropos in
lsh/libstd/help.lsh and in method setfilter of
the class Explorer in lsh/libogre/treebrowser.lsh

  -- Yann

On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Ralf Juengling wrote:
> One thing that has annoyed me for a long time is that
> lush's online help sometimes overwhelms with answers.
> I usually use the ^A command key to search for functions
> when I can't remember the exact function name or
> arguments. What's the function that pulls out the maximum
> element in an array?
>
> ? ^Amax
> 451 matches, show anyway (y/n) [n]> n
>
> The problem here is that "max" is part of many function
> names in a dozens packages. But I am not interested in
> those packages here. It would be nice to have a second search
> command that only searches for function names that are
> currently defined. Yann, would it be reasonably easy to
> implement this on top of the current help system?
>
> Ralf
>
>
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