Re: Re: Org-FAQ request for full-text dump

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 13, 2010, at 6:13 AM, Dan Davison wrote:

> Benjamin Andresen <benny@in-ulm.de> writes:
>
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> quite often people ask question in the IRC-channel (#org-mode on
>> freenode) which are answered in the FAQ. Now I personally find the
>> org-faq very cumbersome to use, due to its javascript-interface that
>> grabs keys.
>
> +1
>
> The info.js HTML export is an excellent invention, but I don't think
> it's right for the FAQ, at least not with the current setup.  
> Personally
> I sometimes skim FAQs to get a sense of a project, and I think  
> visitors
> should be able to scroll down / search in a familiar fashion to get  
> more
> information. I think obliging random web visitors to use Info style
> navigation by default is a bad idea. To be honest I've never read
> anything in the FAQ because I can't easily skim it, and if I have a
> specific question I look in the manual.
>
> In addition to a flat format, a possible better way to use info.js for
> the FAQ would be in a "startup contents" mode, whereby all headings  
> and
> questions are visible, but question answers are not.

You can make your bookmark look like this:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php?VIEW=content

- Carsten

>
> Dan
>
>>
>> (Just a short thing: I'm faster with my native browser search
>> functionality than with the interface that is used on org-faq.php
>>
>> In my browser it's: /color n n n N n
>>
>> vs.
>>
>> s color s RET s RET s RET and I don't even know how to jump back to a
>> previous search results (also sometimes the first search doesn't even
>> work, I have to do it twice, haven't investigated this further.))
>>
>> Because of this I currently use the org-faq.org file locally and
>> then grab the CUSTOM_ID and attach it to the org-faq.php link as an
>> anchor.
>>
>> So my question is basically: Could we get a plain dump of the file?
>>
>> (I don't know who controls the export and I guess just copying the  
>> file
>> and stripping out all the infoJS stuff is not the right way to do  
>> it.)
>>
>> br,
>> benny
>>
>> Please don't take offense, I'm sure many other people like the infoJS
>> interface, I just find it inefficient and mainly different from the  
>> way
>> I search the web.
>>
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- Carsten