[Haskell-cafe] Tiny documentation request

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 15:55:28 EDT 2007


Hi

> > I've never really understood what the benefit of this is... I mean,
> > Google make "the Google toolbar", but what's the point? Why not just
> > click on the Google bookmark and type in your search? What benefits does
> > installing a special addon provide?

You can setup firefox so in the location bar (Alt+D) typing "h query"
(without the quotes) will perform a hoogle query. Simply right click
in the search box and click "add keyword search" with "h" as the
keyword. You can also do the same for Google, which I've been using
for years (Opera 5 had this feature!)

re: Hoogle not always getting it exactly right, there are a few known
bugs floating around which I'm working on. Hoogle can permute the
order of arguments though, so that shouldn't be a problem. It doesn't
really like Monads, but I wrote Hoogle before I was aware of
higher-kinded type classes, so its understandable...

Thanks

Neil


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