Idea: you type in the start of the name of the page you want. Your browser shows the page which matches the longest prefix of your search term.
If there are several equally long matches, it displays the page with the shortest filename.
If there are no matches, it displays the manual page index.
| You type | Browser shows | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| mne | mnesia | |
| mnesia_s | mnesia_session | |
| lis | lists | |
| z | module_index | No page starts with z, so we show the index |
You can download
the erlang code which generates the index and use it to generate
an index of the erlang documentation on your local hard disk. The
documentation itself can be downloaded from www.erlang.org.
There is also a command line version which ONLY works for mozilla
on linux. You can type 'eman lis' on your shell's command line
and mozilla will display the page you wanted. A tiny amount of
hacking would make it work for Netscape too.
Problems
Please don't bug the OTP guys about problems with this search hack.
Send some mail to me (matthias@corelatus.com) or the
mailing list.