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

Zoltan Lajos Kis kiszl@REDACTED
Tue Aug 11 09:15:46 CEST 2009


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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