Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:08 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Lennart Borgman writes:
>>>
>>>  >
>>>  >    Google: "site:www.gnu.org/software/emacs/24.2/manual/ some thing"
>>>
>>> A truly horrible search to type, of course.
>>
>> ;-) -- You do not do that, normally. Two alternatives:
>>
>> 1. You open an equivalent URL. From within Emacs for example. Or from
>> a web page.
>> 2. You create a Google CSE. Works very well upto 200 documents (and
>> perhaps a few hundred more.)
>
> The LilyPond manual pages have a search box that works like the first
> option, I think.

Do you have a link to that on the web?


> Against using a clear text search or the index in Info, it sucks really,
> really, really bad.  Part of the problem is that followup
> searches/refinements pretty fast end up on some other page.

I can't see how that can happen.


> Part of the
> problem is that, well, searching for something on a huge page that is
> actually already loaded works not all that well anyway, but then you may
> end up on the split version, too.

I do not understand how that relates to what we are talking about here.