On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:33:52 -0500, "Thomas L Roche" said: > >> (BTW: didn't there useta be a "one big FAQ" option, a lá the > >> "one big UG"?) > > Joshua Daniel Franklin Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:53:56 -0800 > > Yes, it's at <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html>. I seem to have > > borked cygwin.com/faq.html with my last update and the links are > > gone. I'll fix that when I get the chance, hopefully this weekend. > > Thanks in advance: it's a lot easier to search the "one big FAQ". > > BTW, since we're on the topic: has anyone thought about providing a > "simple FAQish search" form? What I mean: when I wanna know something > about Cygwin, I gather search terms, then > > 0 pull up the one big FAQ, and search it (with browser find) > > 1 pull up the one big UG, and search it (with browser find) > > 2 archive-search cygwin, cygwin-xfree, etc via their forms > > ISTMT It Would Be Nice, and not too difficult, to provide > > * a "FAQish search form" (a textfield and submit button, > just like the archive search forms) > > * that would frontend a script that automated the 3 searches above, > and returned a hit page > > Granted, it would be work, but it would go a long way toward > {automating, easing, improving the likelihood that folks will > actually} > > http://cygwin.com/lists.html > > check out the FAQ, the documentation, and the bug reporting > > guidelines before sending email to a mailing list. > > or at least 2 outta 3 ...
It wouldn't be that much work, either. It's simply a matter of providing a search form which passes a proper restriction parameter to ht://Dig. For example, these work (the first searches the UG, the second - the FAQ): <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=%2Fcygwin-ug-net%2F&exclude=&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=time&words=ntsec> <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=%2Ffaq%2F&exclude=&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=time&words=ntsec> Of course, the usefulness of any page is impacted greatly by the phrasing of the search query... Also, being able to search for a quoted phrase (a la Google) would help immensely (not sure if ht://Dig allows this). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
