[PD] keyword/regexp search of documentation in a plugin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That's great, looking forward to it.  I'm really happy to see you  
taking this and running with it, let me know if there are any  
blockers.  Seems to me that its ready to be posted on the GUI plugins  
category of the download page:

http://puredata.info/community/projects/software

.hc

On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> I'm making some more changes, like removing the checkboxes and using a
> combobox for the genres.  Also using a combobox to enter search terms
> which has the benefit of a more user friendly drop-down menu for
> a search history (plus less code).
>
> Also, I changed the search function so you can type:
> foo bar
>
> and it will match if both foo and bar appear in the document  
> (regardless
> of order).
>
> -Jonathan
>
> --- On Sun, 2/6/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] keyword/regexp search of documentation in a plugin
>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "pd-list" <PD-list at iem.at>
>> Date: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 11:29 PM
>>
>> Wow, that's really nice! The dynamic updating with the
>> checkboxes is
>> impressive.  More features and better
>> formatting.  My only complaint
>> is the "No DESCRIPTION tag." message, I say it'd be better
>> just blank.
>>
>> There is also a weird thing where I can't grab the
>> scrollbar and move
>> it, only scroll with the mousewheel.  This is using
>> Pd-extended 0.43
>> from 02-02 on Mac OS X 10.5/Intel.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:03 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>
>>> Remixed!
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>> --- On Thu, 1/13/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>> Subject: Re: [PD] keyword/regexp search of
>> documentation in a plugin
>>>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>>>> Cc: "pd-list" <PD-list at iem.at>
>>>> Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:00 PM
>>>> Attached is an updated version:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Jonathan Wilkes
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 1 the results aren't clickable
>>>>
>>>> Which platform?  They are for me on
>> Ubuntu/maverick,
>>>> Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
>>>>
>>>>> 2 you can't enter multiple non-contiguous
>> terms
>>>>
>>>> Its a regexp really, so it doesn't really do
>> keyword
>>>> searches.  Ideally, this would use a search
>> engine like
>>>> xapian, then it could do keyword searches.  I
>> just
>>>> added code to replace spaces in the searchtext
>> with the
>>>> regexp code ".*" so that it'll search
>> non-contiguous words,
>>>> but the first word will always be before the
>> second in
>>>> search results.
>>>>
>>>>> 3 no control over AND vs. OR (or is there?)
>>>>
>>>> regexp
>>>>
>>>>> 4 doesn't differentiate between
>> tutorial/example
>>>> patches and object-help
>>>>> patches (what if I just want to find the
>> object named
>>>> 'gate'?)
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, that wouldn't be too hard to do, I guess it
>> would be a
>>>> pull down menu of: object, message, comment,
>> array, any.
>>>>
>>>>> 5 most of the results don't fit into the
>> window size
>>>>
>>>> The window should be resizable.
>>>>
>>>>> 6 full text search makes it impossible to get
>> useful
>>>> results for 'float',
>>>>> array', 'list', etc.
>>>>
>>>> That sounds like fully typed searching, which
>> would be very
>>>> nice, but much harder to do.  My goal right
>> now is to
>>>> get a basic search function working.
>> Hopefully my code
>>>> is clear enough that others will make their own
>> custom
>>>> search plugins.  I could see simple search,
>> regexp,
>>>> search engine, etc.
>>>>
>>>>> 7 can't search by inlet, object function,
>> author, etc.
>>>> (PDDP META tags)
>>>>
>>>> Why not?  This works for me: author.*steiner
>>>>
>>>>> 8 non-friendly user interface
>>>>
>>>> I spruced it up a bit with this latest version.
>>>>
>>>>> 9 it doesn't seem to be searching the manual
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I'll add .html to the file types it searches.
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've already got a pd patch that is well on
>> its way to
>>>> curing 1-8 (posted
>>>>> screenshots awhile back), but it requires
>> toxy, which
>>>> seems to have been
>>>>> removed from pd-ext, and there is currently
>> no
>>>> (non-buggy) tk 'entry'
>>>>> object in existence.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --- On Wed, 1/12/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> <hans at at.or.at>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>>>> Subject: [PD] keyword/regexp search of
>>>> documentation in a plugin
>>>>>> To: "pd-list" <PD-list at iem.at>
>>>>>> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 7:10
>> AM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At the strong urging of Sofy Yuditskaya, I
>> finally
>>>> wrote up
>>>>>> a quick
>>>>>> interface for searching the Pd docs using
>> a
>>>> keyword or a
>>>>>> regexp.  Its in
>>>>>> the form of an 0.43 plugin, so you can
>> just drop
>>>> it into
>>>>>> your
>>>>>> user-folder and you should get a "Search"
>> item on
>>>> the Help
>>>>>> menu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Test it out and let me know how it works
>> for you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .hc
>>>>>>
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>>>> “We must become the change we want to see. -
>> Mahatma
>>>> Gandhi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <search-plugin.tcl>
>>
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