Full Text Search, Language Support for the Ubuntu Manpage Repo
October 3, 2008
A new release of the Ubuntu Manpage Repository rolled out this week to http://manpages.ubuntu.com. This is by far the most complete interface yet!
Notable new features include:
- Full text search using a Google Custom Search Engine
- Better support for non-English languages. There is now a select box in the search form, supporting the 17 languages that have 100 or manpages. This can be used to narrow either the title search, or the text search.
- Instead of ‘404 Not Found’ pages, invalid URLs offer search results.
- Example: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/scooby
If you would be willing and interested to translate the main page into another language, please email me.
ustin
October 3, 2008 at 3:57 pm
This has really shapped up into a nice tool. Thanks for creating this!
I’m also excited that there is a search engine plugin for Firefox…