I'm not sure if this has been discussed before. I use the language reference a lot on dlang.org and I've been finding it difficult not to use CTRL+F on the menu at the left which has it sorted pretty much randomly.

Clicking on "Language Reference" brings me to "Lexical" rather than an alphabetically sorted list or a detailed summary. If I want to find "Mixins" for example (because I remembered the page title), I have to look through the entire menu twice just to discover it's called "Template Mixins" and the page title is inconsistent. Ugh..

On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 20:17:27 UTC, Etienne wrote:
> I'm not sure if this has been discussed before. I use the language reference a lot on dlang.org and I've been finding it difficult not to use CTRL+F on the menu at the left which has it sorted pretty much randomly.
>
> Clicking on "Language Reference" brings me to "Lexical" rather than an alphabetically sorted list or a detailed summary. If I want to find "Mixins" for example (because I remembered the page title), I have to look through the entire menu twice just to discover it's called "Template Mixins" and the page title is inconsistent. Ugh..

I just use google:
  mixin site:dlang.org

The first hit is string mixins, the second is template mixin.

Am Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:46:27 +0100
schrieb "simendsjo" <simendsjo@gmail.com>:

> On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 20:17:27 UTC, Etienne wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this has been discussed before. I use the language reference a lot on dlang.org and I've been finding it difficult not to use CTRL+F on the menu at the left which has it sorted pretty much randomly.
> >
> > Clicking on "Language Reference" brings me to "Lexical" rather than an alphabetically sorted list or a detailed summary. If I want to find "Mixins" for example (because I remembered the page title), I have to look through the entire menu twice just to discover it's called "Template Mixins" and the page title is inconsistent. Ugh..
> 
> I just use google:
>    mixin site:dlang.org
> 
> The first hit is string mixins, the second is template mixin.

Some browsers allow you to create mnemonics for searches. So you can reduce the typing in the address bar to:

  d mixin

E.g. in Opera you visit dlang.org then right-click on the search field in the top-right and select "Create search..."

-- 
Marco

On 12/17/2013 03:11 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Some browsers allow you to create mnemonics for searches. So
> you can reduce the typing in the address bar to:
>
>    d mixin
>
> E.g. in Opera you visit dlang.org then right-click on the
> search field in the top-right and select "Create search..."

And there is also a cmdline tool to do this, dman.
Still anything that helps to improve the usability of the website is welcome https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org.

On 12/19/2013 2:11 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> And there is also a cmdline tool to do this, dman.
> Still anything that helps to improve the usability of the website is welcome
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org.

I find dman to be very convenient. Glad someone else noticed it :-)

On Thursday, 19 December 2013 at 22:11:33 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> And there is also a cmdline tool to do this, dman.

I didn't know about it. How can I download it?
Also, can we add a link to the `dman` at the http://dlang.org/download.html page (or at some similar place)?

On 12/21/2013 7:33 AM, ilya-stromberg wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 December 2013 at 22:11:33 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> And there is also a cmdline tool to do this, dman.
>
> I didn't know about it. How can I download it?
> Also, can we add a link to the `dman` at the http://dlang.org/download.html page
> (or at some similar place)?

It comes with the dmd installation, it's in the same bin directory as dmd.exe.

On Saturday, 21 December 2013 at 22:18:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/21/2013 7:33 AM, ilya-stromberg wrote:
>> On Thursday, 19 December 2013 at 22:11:33 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>> And there is also a cmdline tool to do this, dman.
>>
>> I didn't know about it. How can I download it?
>> Also, can we add a link to the `dman` at the http://dlang.org/download.html page
>> (or at some similar place)?
>
> It comes with the dmd installation, it's in the same bin directory as dmd.exe.

Thanks. Please, add some information about `dmain` to the `Downloads & Tools` section of `dlang.org` site. It looks like nobody knows about it except core language developers.