[tex-live] searching help for files w/o documentation

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Thu Dec 18 14:47:21 CET 2008


> Maybe even better to enhance TeXdoc to iterate over
> an extended set of extensions, and to report for
> a hypothetical CJKnumb with four candidates :
> 
> 	texdoc info: No exact match, trying fuzzy search mode.
> 	No documentation found for CJKnumb, trying extended search mode
> 
> 	1       f:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cjk/cjknumb.cls
> 	2       f:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cjk/cjknumb.dtx
> 	3       f:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cjk/cjknumb.sty
> 	4       f:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cjk/cjknumb.tex
> 	Please enter the number of the file to view, anything else to skip:

aWell, instead of restricting to a certain extension (maybe there are
files without an extension...), it would make more sense IMHO to check
whether the contents of the file is binary or text, only adding the
latter to the list of choices.


    Werner


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