I just found the Debian search system on http://www.debian.org/ghindex.html.
This seems to me like a big step forward, and am sorry I didn't see it
before. Just yesterday I remarked to someone (for whom I had answered a
user-question by specifying the appropriate HOWTO) that the HOWTO's
desperately needed a search interface.
Questions and comments:
1. In the line "Files in this directory", what does the
word 'this' refer to?
2. Would it be possible (i.e., would the motivation/pain ratio exceed 1)
to add the HOWTO's to the list of indexed files, and then automate the
rebuild of the glimpse index as new packages appear for doc-linux?
3. Going further, would it possible (same as above) to simply add all
of /usr/doc and all of /usr/info to the list of indexed files? If so,
the text above the search engine form could be greatly streamlined.
4. Comment: it would be nice to put the selectable directories in a
<SELECT><OPTION> ....</SELECT> grouping, where the default was ALL.
I would have been happy to send this directly to the author of the
ghindex.html, but I don't know who that is. It might be useful to add
a mailto: at the bottom of the page.
Cheers,
Susan Kleinmann
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