[commit] improved help search, was Re: [sc-dev] its time for a User library

[Scott Wilson <sdwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 Mar 2006, at 00:02, Scott Wilson wrote:

> Something like this would be good, as it is very slow now with all  
> the extension directories. It might be worth doing something with  
> SearchKit, as that's already keeping a database.
>
> That said, the current implementation is still searching the whole  
> tree for each possible extension, which needless to say, sucks.  
> I'll take a look at fixing it.

Okay, I've committed a new version which compares every candidate for  
each possible extension. It's WAY faster. This should have been done  
a long time ago.

I think there may now be an unnecessary layer of dispatch, but I'm  
too tired right now to chase it through.

On 5 Mar 2006, at 00:11, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
> Maybe there should be an archive directory: /build/object_archives
> The paths could be saved there into an sc archive. When a new  
> helpfile is not found at first, it's path could be added to the  
> archive automatically.

Give the new version a try. This may not be needed.

On my machine a search on foobar trolls through and pops up main help  
in a little over a second. No beachball.

I also got rid of the help.sc extension, as with Stefan's changes  
this is no longer necessary.

S.