On 27 September 2004 21:15, Peter Simons wrote:
Simon Marlow writes:
This change has now been made.
Uh ... any hints what has changed? A new command line flag?
we need a way to retain the collapsed/expanded state between page transitions (JavaScript hackers apply here!).
I am not certain whether these collapsed menus are a good idea. Admitted, they make the page shorter at first glance. But at the same time, they make it impossible to search in the text!
When I want to see the documentation for, say Data.List, I hit CTRL-HOME in Mozilla, then type "/data.lis", and finally press RETURN to follow the link -- and I have reached the page. The hands never left the keyboard. With collapsed menus, that doesn't work anymore.
Anyway, if there was an option to enable/disable that functionality in Haddock, all would be well. :-)
The tree is expanded by default now (Sven Panne made the change a few days ago). I take your point about searching in Mozilla - I'm a big fan of Firefox's incrememtal search too. The problem I was originally trying to solve is when you have a huge number of instances for a datatype (look at the docs for Prelude, for example), which makes it hard to navigate the page. I'm not sure if we can solve this *and* have searching do the right thing. Cheers, Simon