[Zope3-Users] How to find something in the apidoc ?

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At 12:14 PM 10/9/2006, Stephan Richter wrote:
>On Sunday 08 October 2006 09:06, Christophe Combelles wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the /++apidoc++ is the main and greatest source of documentation for the
> > zope 3 API, but sometimes I spend a lot of time to find something. So I
> > have 3 questions:
> >
> > Take an example: Say I've heard about the function getMultiAdapter, and I
> > want to know how to use it. So I first go to the apidoc and:
> >
> > 1) if I don't know which component this function is part of, how do I
> > quickly find it?
>
>You can't at the moment. There is no generic search feature at this point.
>Actually you can easily search for packages, modules, and classes using the
>Code Browser, but not functions and methods. Maybe we should create an
>efficient index to search these things too? I would be happy for a detailed
>proposal of the features users would like to see for the code browser.

Perhaps Google's new code searching will be some help getting started?

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=getMultiAdapter+lang%3Apython&btnG=Search+Code

Certainly there should be ways to narrow this down more effectively, say 
limiting search to a specific body of code (which I have not done).

I've not explored much yet, but already with this Google tool I have found 
several cases where other people are publishing modified versions of 
software that I had originated that I had no idea were out there.  Not that 
I needed to know, but it is interesting to find when someone likes what 
you've done enough to push it toward new limits.
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