From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-07-11T08:14:33+09:00
Subject: Re: PickAxe 2 licensing

Kirk Haines wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 05:57:01 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote
> 
>>On Jul 10, 2004, at 15:11, Sean O'Dell wrote:
>>
>>>Crazy idea: a website that lets people search the entire contents of 
>>>the book,
>>
>>Wouldn't a PDF let you do this?
> 
> 
> It does, but I think the idea is that it would be most useful for people who 
> buy the hard copy of the book as a sort of super-index.  It doesn't return 
> enough of the body of work for it to be useful to someone without the book, 
> but with the book in hand it would help one quickly find whatever one needed 
> out of the book.

What about an ri plugin or extension, something that returns the normal 
ri contents, but also gives a Pickaxe 2 page ref.

ri -pa2 String


(Maybe just patching the ri YAML files could accomplish this, if you 
don't mind seeing it appear by default on all ri queries.)

Still, a simple HTML file on the the PragProg page with the book index 
would be helpful for greps.

James