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#346 HelpServer: right hand frame (toc link) in URL

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closed-fixed
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2016-08-14
2015-02-08
Alan Ezust
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InfoViewer when configured with the HelpInfoViewer can restore the previous help page that was viewed next time it is started. This is because the URL it must show already "includes" the TOC pane (the option to get rid of the TOC pane is a GUI setting).

With a regular web browser, however, there is a URL for the frames version of the page, and no way to bookmark help pages that will when restored, bring you to a particular help page on the right frame, that ALSO has the TOC frame on the left.

Is there a way to encode the URL of the HelpServer so it also includes info about what URL to show in the right hand frame? It would be nice to be able to bookmark those kinds of pages.

Discussion

  • Alan Ezust

    Alan Ezust - 2015-02-08
    • summary: HelpServer: right hand pane (toc link) in URL --> HelpServer: right hand frame (toc link) in URL
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  • Eric Le Lay

    Eric Le Lay - 2016-08-10

    committed in [5637e8e]

    Navigation in the contents frame is saved to the hash of the help page, making them bookmarkable.
    Navigation is also pushed to server, so it is restored upon next invocation of jEdit Help (configurable).
    Does it fit what you had in mind?

     
  • Alan Ezust

    Alan Ezust - 2016-08-11

    It seems to be exactly what i asked for :-)

     
  • Eric Le Lay

    Eric Le Lay - 2016-08-11

    Cool. I've broken the HelpServer reflection code in [r24495]. I will commit a jEdit 5.3.1+ version this week-end.

     

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    Commit: [r24495]

  • Eric Le Lay

    Eric Le Lay - 2016-08-14
    • status: open --> closed-fixed
     
  • Eric Le Lay

    Eric Le Lay - 2016-08-14

    Pending HelpServer 0.2.0 release.
    If you use jEdit trunk, you'll have to checkout the HelpServer code from git, branch jedit-next, until jEdit 5.3.1 and HelpServer 1.0.0 are released.

     

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