[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54880] Search in Documentation pane doesn't really work

[Philip Nienhuis]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54880>

                 Summary: Search in Documentation pane doesn't really work
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: philipnienhuis
            Submitted on: Mon 22 Oct 2018 10:11:09 PM CEST
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Philip Nienhuis
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

Searching anything using the search tab in the documentation pane doesn't
yield any result, not even the word "Octave". See attached pic.
IMO this is an "incorrect result", as the word "Octave" is mentioned several
times in the subpane to the right. 

I hit this before but could work around it by using the index tab. But now I
wanted to search for the keyword (statement) "for" and the the search gets a
bit harder.

For Octave newbies a better search capability would be a big benefit, I
think.
The best would be a full text search capability but maybe that is asking too
much; but at least function names, keywords and reserved words should be
searchable in the built-in docs.



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Date: Mon 22 Oct 2018 10:11:09 PM CEST  Name: Doc_pane_search.PNG  Size: 31KiB
  By: philipnienhuis

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=45259>

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