Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman writes:
>>
>>  >
>>  >    Google: "site:www.gnu.org/software/emacs/24.2/manual/ some thing"
>>
>> A truly horrible search to type, of course.
>
> ;-) -- You do not do that, normally. Two alternatives:
>
> 1. You open an equivalent URL. From within Emacs for example. Or from
> a web page.
> 2. You create a Google CSE. Works very well upto 200 documents (and
> perhaps a few hundred more.)

The LilyPond manual pages have a search box that works like the first
option, I think.

Against using a clear text search or the index in Info, it sucks really,
really, really bad.  Part of the problem is that followup
searches/refinements pretty fast end up on some other page.  Part of the
problem is that, well, searching for something on a huge page that is
actually already loaded works not all that well anyway, but then you may
end up on the split version, too.

-- 
David Kastrup