Please open an issue for this at github.com/Raku/doc/issues
On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:12 PM Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you go to docs.raku.org and type "^methods" into the search > window, you get a drop down looking something like this: > > class > Method > Submethod > > method > methods > > Reference > ^methods > methods > Submethods > > Routine > method > > Site Search > search entire site for ^methods > > There's a bunch of stuff in there I don't particularly want to > see, but there's at least one entry that's definitely a hit: > > Reference > ^methods > > That takes you to here: > > > https://docs.raku.org/language/classtut#index-entry-$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENTmethods > > > On this, my browser leaves me at the top of the page, it doesn't jump > to the internal label-- it's presumably missing from the page: and > $CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT is a variable that was supposed to interpolate > but got treated as a literal. > > But anyway, I can do a text search for "^methods" now, and that > takes me to this section, where there's some good material about > "^methods": > > https://docs.raku.org/language/classtut#Introspection > > Every other entry in that drop down menu is a red herring. > Particularly bad is the "search entire site" because it uses > Google, and they don't treat characters like '^' as significant > (once upon a time they had a "code search" feature, but it's > long gone). > > There *are* other place whether "^methods" is mentioned in the > documentation, but to find them I needed to do a git clone of > the project and grep the source files on my hard drive: > > language/5to6-perlvar > Language/operators > Language/rb-nutshell > Language/structures > Type/ForeignCode > Type/Metamodel/MethodContainer > Type/Signature > Type/Stash > > And actually, just the fact that the main search interface for > the raku docs is a drop-down is a bit of an annoyance for me-- it > no doubt seems very modern to some people, but I had to do a > screen shot of it just to get it to sit still so I could type up > the copy I included above.
