[Gambas-user] Help on Help? IDE operation experience

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 22/05/2021 à 20:26, John Anderson a écrit :
> 
> 
> On 5/22/2021 7:17 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Le 22/05/2021 à 05:31, John Anderson a écrit :
>>> Maybe a somewhat noob experience here and maybe I missed something - 
>>> but maybe these could be future upgrades to think about - On Master 
>>> Gambas 3.16.90 and stable 3.16.0 running on Linux Mint 20.1 here is 
>>> what I'm running into.  Please steer me the right direction if I've 
>>> missed something obvious:
>>>
>>> 1)  I know if I'm typing a keyword in the IDE, say I'm typing 
>>> "Struct" I do get a small popup help box as an aid.  Nice!.  BUT If I 
>>> go to help browser, is there a way to 'search for' a keyword? 
>>
>> No, but if you login to the Gambas wiki, there is a search box.
>>
> I understand, but the dev machines are in a secure facility air-gapped 
> from the 'Net.  So no "logging in" to anything from any machine with 
> source code on it.   All help docs has to be searched at a local level 
> only, that's why I was looking for a help doc search function that 
> worked on the offline docs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -John
> 

It should not be difficult to implement a local search with 'grep', as 
the documentation files are written in Gambas markdown.

-- 
Benoît Minisini