death@btr.btr.com (03/05/91)
There's a Digital Librarian feature that I have been unable to find in either the 1.0 or the 2.0 versions. If it's there, just call me foolish and hand me a pointer to the proper place. My thought is this: I'll not infrequently do a search, locate the document that I know has my answers and then want to do a fine-tuned search within that one document. For example I'll sometimes know I want to dig around in some 'csh' related doc. I'll search the man pages for 'csh', and at some point open the 'csh' man page itself. This is a long document and not usually something I want to scan all the way through. At this point, I'd like some kind of a search (a regular expression search of course would be best ;-) so that I could look through just this one document for 'alias' or 'if' or '#' or whatever. Some of this I imagine I could accomplish by doing a new search for 'alias' in the man pages. But even when possible, it forces me to then go back and redo my original 'csh' search when all I had really wanted to do was do a minor, non-intrusive, search in one doc. I can do this, obviously, with WriteNow because it has amodifiable find box when the document eventually opens. But for man pages and shakespeare and the like, I feel like I'm stuck. Am I somehow expecting something that doesn't conform with how the DL is supposed to work, or does no one ever need this aside from I, or is it just an overlooked feature? \david john burrowes