[Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Sun Sep 9 12:41:50 EDT 2007


Sven Panne wrote:
> On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:40, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>   
>> 1. Would it be possible to make the *huge* list of package names at the
>> top collapsable? (That way I don't have to scroll through several pages
>> of uninteresting text to get to the bit I actually want.)
>>     
>
> What do you mean exactly with "the *huge* list of package names"? The 
> description list with the short textual descriptions of each package? I'd say 
> that this list is highly interesting to people unfamiliar with the package 
> structure, so it is good that it is there.
>   

Well, if I could collapse it with a single click, it would be much 
easier to scroll past it and get to the thing I'm looking for. I didn't 
say remove it, just give me the option to hide it. ;-)

>> 2. Could we make is so all items are collapsed initially? (Currently
>> they're all expended initially - which makes it take rather a long time
>> to find anything.)
>>     
>
> Again this depends on the use case: I'd vote strongly against collapsing the 
> list initially, because that way the incremental search in Firefox won't work 
> without un-collapsing everything.
>   

Oh goodie... So it's there to keep the machines happy?

It's just tedious that every single time I load up this page, I have to 
spend 30 seconds manually collapsing everything so I can get to the 
module I actually want to look at. (The alternative is to manually 
scroll the 13-page list my hand. Not very funny...)

OK, so... can we add a pair of "expand all"/"collapse all" buttons then?



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