From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, Noah Lavine <noah549@gmail.com>,
Neil Jerram <neiljerram@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Lack of Documentation for (ice-9 regex) in Guile 1.9.10
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:03:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp6bpoyb.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m339xlze6j.fsf@pobox.com
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> On Thu 20 May 2010 03:36, Noah Lavine <noah549@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I found the documentation in info - sorry for the confusion. It didn't
>> occur to me that a regexp would be considered a "Simple Data Type".
>
> Interesting observation. Copying Neil, who's working on the manual :)
Old email alert...
As far as the manual is concerned, I don't see anything else that we
could do. As things stand, the index entries for `regex' and
`string-match' go straight to the relevant doc, and if you do `i match',
the third result is the doc for match objects.
The online help - currently nothing at all - could be improved, though.
We could address this particular case by cutting/pasting/editing from
the manual text. Or, we could do something more general: basically
post-process the manual in some way so that it can provide online help
strings. Any thoughts on that?
(To get this to work, we might need a commenting convention to indicate
which module the following section of manual is covering.)
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-30 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 20:58 Lack of Documentation for (ice-9 regex) in Guile 1.9.10 Noah Lavine
2010-05-20 1:36 ` Noah Lavine
2010-05-21 11:28 ` Andy Wingo
2010-05-21 13:48 ` Neil Jerram
2010-10-30 15:03 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2010-10-31 0:46 ` Noah Lavine
2010-10-31 8:38 ` Neil Jerram
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