CUPS 1.3: new fulltext search feature for the documents is very nice

[Michael Sweet]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> I'm really pleased to see how well and how fast the new fulltext search
> feature for localhost:631/help works.
> 
> This thing alone will be worth quite a lot of hassle should an upgrade
> be causing them once the 1.3.0 final is released.
> 
> It really, really, really is very helpful to point users and customers
> to -- because they now finally can find fast what they are looking for
> in the documentation (or they can simply be told to search for "Known
> Issues", "Using Policies", "cupstestdsc", "cupsctl", "cupsfilter" or
> "Accounting")....
> 
> I wonder how you made it so fast? Are you building and keeping some sort
> of cache?

Yes, just as in 1.2 we have a help.index file in the cache directory.
The 1.3 version just builds an index of words in each section that
can be searched as well.

All of the help indexing/searching stuff can be found in
cgi-bin/help-index.[ch].

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