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Would be nice to have the search functionality in the help view too. This was working in sup!

Wouldn't be good to change the "Help" interface to an HTML/CSS page like the thread view? That way we could also make a much better "Help" experience (and I assume the "search" feature would work like in threads).

But I agree that would be a lot of work :-)

Hugo Roy writes on februar 25, 2017 19:53:

Wouldn't be good to change the "Help" interface to an HTML/CSS page like the thread view? That way we could also make a much better "Help" experience (and I assume the "search" feature would work like in threads).

Yes, this would be better. We could even present the help page as an e-mail from the astroid helper (the content could be generated dynamically still). The style can still be done with the standard CSS and HTML page.

In that case it is pretty much ready, otherwise it is a little more work to create a custom thread-view for help.

@jancborchardt I'd like your views on that? :-)

I can recommend to check out how Chromium does search on the settings pages. :) Just filtering out everything unrelated, and highlighting the matching entries. That’s our plan with how to do it in the Nextcloud settings as well. :)

New astroid usere here... I would seriously love this.

My only friction using astroid at the moment is the pain of scrolling and scanning the help pages for the right key, a simple search like all the other views would be great.

Please add this feature, it would be a huge usability gain for new astroid users.

Adding my vote to this, not being able to search key bindings makes for a much harder learning curve than necessary (and will thus drive some potential users away from the project). Not everyone will remember the keys easily, and given that apart from that help screen there is no indication on screen of what to do, this makes it quite hard to use Astroid currently.