Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-20 Thread Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal
> On Nov 20, 2019, at 5:25 AM, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal > wrote: > > You said, "but its got bugs and I haven't been able to contact the developer > to fix them" > > What are the bugs you want fixed? There you are. ;) There are stray tags which are messing things up. For example: http

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-20 Thread Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal
You said, "but its got bugs and I haven't been able to contact the developer to fix them" What are the bugs you want fixed? ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-18 Thread Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal
> On Nov 18, 2019, at 1:15 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > As with all things FPC, the sources are available: > > svn co https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/html/docsearch docsearch > > Feel free to suggest improvements. It should be easy enough to add a first > element that contains an exac

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote: On Nov 17, 2019, at 5:20 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: That would be me. And there already is an API. How else ? This is Free Pascal ! Sorry for the late response. Nice this is exactly what I wanted. However when I started to lo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-18 Thread Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal
> On Nov 17, 2019, at 5:20 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > That would be me. > > And there already is an API. How else ? This is Free Pascal ! Sorry for the late response. Nice this is exactly what I wanted. However when I started to look at the actual results I'm confused. For my exa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:35:34 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I will of course need to update the database when we release 3.2 and I update the docs. I had a look at it too and searched for baseunix fpopen etc. Found this: ht

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:35:34 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >I will of course need to update the database when we release 3.2 and I update >the >docs. > I had a look at it too and searched for baseunix fpopen etc. Found this: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/fpopen.htm

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev via fpc-pascal
On Sunday, November 17, 2019, Graeme Geldenhuys < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: > > Either way, that's a pie in the face for Embarcadero. :-) > They probably asked Embarcadero the same question for Delphi language reference thanks, Dmitry ___ fp

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal
On 11/17/2019 2:41 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17/11/2019 10:31 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Stated purpose was special handling in the Bing search engine. Either way, that's a pie in the face for Embarcadero. :-) They might rather get a chuckle out of it, after all, it is Bing. And as

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/11/2019 10:31 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > Stated purpose was special handling in the Bing search engine. Either way, that's a pie in the face for Embarcadero. :-) Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17/11/2019 10:20 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: That would be me. Thought that much. ;-) And there already is an API. How else ? This is Free Pascal ! If you look in the browser developer console when using that page, you'll see there a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17/11/2019 10:22 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Even Microsoft asked official permission to use our website as pascal reference. For what need? VS Code? Stated purpose was special handling in the Bing search engine. Michael. __

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/11/2019 10:20 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > That would be me. Thought that much. ;-) > And there already is an API. How else ? This is Free Pascal ! > > > If you look in the browser developer console when using that page, > you'll see there are 2 calls available which do return JSO

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/11/2019 10:22 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > Even Microsoft asked official permission to use our website as pascal > reference. For what need? VS Code? Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote: Could FPC make an API for the official documentation search at https://www.freepascal.org/docsearch/docsearch.var so we could make calls like: https://www.freepascal.org/docsearch/docsearch.var?word=List and get back a JSON object that

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17/11/2019 4:29 pm, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote: at https://www.freepascal.org/docsearch/docsearch.var Good to see Free Pascal now actually has searchable online docs (without the help of Internet Search Engines). That's a big step up fr

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/11/2019 4:29 pm, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote: > at https://www.freepascal.org/docsearch/docsearch.var Good to see Free Pascal now actually has searchable online docs (without the help of Internet Search Engines). That's a big step up from a few years ago. Well done to whomever was invo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/11/2019 4:29 pm, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote: > https://www.freepascal.org/docsearch/docsearch.var?word=List > > and get back a JSON object that had the search results? This is > important for integration with 3rd party IDE's. No such API exists (that I know of), but the desire to inte