On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jeff Shannon wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:54:43 -0800 (PST), Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I prefer the HTML, because I can then run searches against it from > > outside the help system. > > Interesting -- I prefer the CHM (Windows helpfile), because it's > internally indexed. I feel that the internal search is more > convenient than external searches would be. But I suppose that > there's room for reasonable people to disagree, here. :)
Sure, and I'd expect I'm in the minority. I use Agent Ransack for searching files on my system. I do a search for, for example, a filename of html$ containing the word "socket" and can get a pretty good look at what I'm looking for. I'll bet that the CHM file can do that at least as well, but since I use Agent Ransack for all my document searches (Python-related or otherwise), it's most convenient for me use one consistent mechanism. I'll tell you, if Google desktop had a way of limiting searches to specific directories, I'd be in heaven. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
