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How to narrow down to one specific docset? #180

Closed snowman closed 5 years ago

snowman commented 5 years ago

According to document:

To narrow the search to just one docset, type its name in the beginning of the search followed by a space.
If the docset contains spaces, no problemo, we handle it :D.

Edebug with: https://github.com/dash-docs-el/helm-dash/blob/0ac2db529577fa63f2ed32310062873c585b91de/helm-dash.el#L428-L439

After run M-x helm-dash, stop at (defun helm-dash-maybe-narrow-docsets (pattern), then prompt Doc for:

Questions:

  1. Why helm-dash-maybe-narrow-docsets run before prompt Doc for:, i have not type anything yet...
  2. Where helm-pattern come from? How to change the value? https://github.com/dash-docs-el/helm-dash/blob/0ac2db529577fa63f2ed32310062873c585b91de/helm-dash.el#L556-L563
  3. How to narrow down to one specific docset? 2019-02-19-125507_1920x1080_scrot

i am not familiar with helm :smile: thanks

kidd commented 5 years ago

helm-pattern is the 'global' variable that contains the text the user wrote as input to helm.

Not sure, but maybe the search for the docset is case sensitive. Try with exact matching case, and if it works, we can work on making it case insensitive if it makes sense (I think it does)