Sebastian Wilzbach

Do you know about dfix? https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix

BTW I like the way Scala's search works. Example http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/collection/immutable/Vector.html?search=fun - You type and get instant results on a "full page" - The accept a query string from the URL...

> That is super nice. So it turns out it's not too hard to do this for dlang.org (https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2319). Though it will require a lot more work to get to...

> Why not use chmgen? :) > It already generates a search index / keyword tag for the CHM and dman. Not sure if that's better: https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2328 With chmgen we...

> Can that be improved (by loading them lazily maybe)? Sure, Done. > Postprocess dmd's -X output maybe? DDox already does this ;-) > I guess we could go with...

> Thanks. I just tried it. It's nice but I think it needs some more work. Yes, I am aware of this, but I don't intend to fix this in...

> more ideally, find a better approach altogether. Ditch Ddoc and focus on _one_ documentation engine?

> Yes, but the DDoc URLs are much more predictable, AND you don't need to parse DDox URLs. I'm not sure whether we are on the same page here. The...

Ping @CyberShadow - so (apart from the mentioned usability issues) can we go with this simple PR or do we need to fork ddox?

9 months later - the regex trick still works very well:  > I'm still queasy as the search works unlike on other parts of the website (or other websites),...