Suggestion: special search for Lean code names?

[mars0i]

Not sure whether this is a Verso issue per se. Maybe it has to be dealt with separately in individual Verso documents?

The suggestion is to provide a special syntax in the search function (or a separate search box?) that allows searching for names for Lean terms.

Example: I was trying to search for by in FPIL. For some reason this doesn't work at all in the search box--maybe it's being excluded as a common word? However, I can search for "by" in a specific page using my browser search. That's tedious, though, because mostly brings up uses of "by" in English. If the FPIL search found instances of "by", it would be even more tedious.

Since code must be marked as code in the document source, it should in theory be possible to do a search that finds a string only when it appears in a code block or inline code. (Sounds easy enough, but that doesn't mean it is.)

I know that if this seems like it's worth implementing, it might not be a priority, but I thought I'd mention it as a possibility.

[david-christiansen]

Thanks for the great suggestion!

This is absolutely on the radar, and I plan to add it after the first release of the new reference manual. The document has lots of metadata (index entries, definition sites of technical terms, code samples, docstrings, etc) and I'd like all of them to have special support in the search.

[mars0i]

Great. I'm not surprised to hear that this was already planned. Thank you!