More Discoveries About Docs in 2.5

[Dan Shafer]

I figured since I complained fairly loudly about the way the Search 
stuff works in 2.5 docs, I should balance that with a better-attitude 
post when I found something useful.

Balances the karma, ya know?

If you type in a term and select Filter With and then click on Objects 
in the toolbar of the docs window, you get a very nice, contextual 
listing of the term for which you are seeking information. Very cool.

In fact, I'm becoming convinced that if we could just set the default 
"mode" for doc searches, the new design is quite elegant. The problem 
as I see it is that it defaults to a mode where "Search for" rather 
than "Filter On" is the default setting and Topics is the default 
search location. That, it seems to me, is the most comprehensive and 
therefore (especially for newbies) the least useful of all the possible 
approaches to search. This is particularly true given that the returned 
results are not sorted in any obviously meaningful way.

But working with the docs just a bit has enabled me to find a way that 
is most comfortable and useful to me.

Oh, and BTW, the bookmark stuff is VERY helpful.


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Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
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