[erlang-questions] Erlang documentation cleanup (PREV: R13B01 modules, quick reference)

[Zoltan Lajos Kis]

They are usually in the form #function-arity, for example:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/ets.html#first-1
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/ets.html#foldl-3

Or did you mean something completely different?

Zoltan.

> But there is no anchor to each function on a module page; which is what
> I want.
>
> /Mazen
>
> Zoltan Lajos Kis wrote:
>> The one the link leads to. There is a search box on the top left.
>>
>> Zoltan.
>>
>>
>>> What page are you looking at?
>>>
>>> /Mazen
>>>
>>> Zoltan Lajos Kis wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can give the search engine at gotapi a try
>>>> (http://www.gotapi.com/erlang). It needs some fixes, but probably will
>>>> do
>>>> what you want.
>>>>
>>>> Anchors already exist in the documentation, in the non-xhtml style (<a
>>>> name="anchor" />) .
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Zoltan.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> This brings up a subject I've been meaning to bring up for a while.
>>>>> The
>>>>> online documentation needs modernisation... A few things that come to
>>>>> mind are:
>>>>>
>>>>> * Proper documentation search (please don't insult this by saying
>>>>> Google... that's just stupid)
>>>>> * Function overview in each module
>>>>> * Module summary on the modules page (and categorized) much like
>>>>> http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/index.html
>>>>> * Add anchors to the HTML so that a link can go straight to a
>>>>> function
>>>>> * Make HTML XHTML
>>>>> * More visually appealing. Probably this won't go very well with
>>>>> old-timers but frankly I have spoken to beginners in Erlang that say
>>>>> that when looking at the documentation it looks like something
>>>>> created
>>>>> 20 years ago and it doesn't look very... well... "appealing". The
>>>>> fact
>>>>> they are right about the age is not the point now is it ;) ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably many more issues exist.... just saying.
>>>>>
>>>>> /Mazen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave Pawson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/erlang/qr.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did it for my own reference.
>>>>>> I use this, then open an appropriate
>>>>>> http://erlang.org/doc/man_index.html  page
>>>>>> for details.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Feedback appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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