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Reporting help not found problems

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Ludo Brands

Hi all,

Reinier just reported a problem with F1 not finding anything for "result" although it is documented (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22754). There are other common words that are documented but can't be found from the IDE (class, string, true, false, the fileutil unit). What is the best way to report these? Raising an issue for every word encountered doesn't sound very productive.

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Ludo Brands
to Hans-Peter Diettrich: FPDoc ignores all built-in basic types, like Char, ShortInt. This won't change. The only…
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> There are other common words that are documented but can't be found from the > IDE (class, string, true, false, the fileutil unit). What is the best way to > report these? Raising an issue for every word encountered doesn't sound very > productive. FPDoc ignores all built-in basic types, like Char, ShortInt. This won't change. The only known workaround are *topics* of the same name.

F1 on ShortInt brings up the page ordinal typs which is correct. Char brings up 2 possibilities the ordinal types page or the char page. The subject was "how to report help problems". So I fail to grab the sense of this comment.

Ludo

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Hans-Peter Diettrich
to Ludo Brands: Reinier just reported a problem with F1 not finding anything for "result" although it is…
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Hi all, Reinier just reported a problem with F1 not finding anything for "result" although it is documented (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22754). There are other common words that are documented but can't be found from the IDE (class, string, true, false, the fileutil unit). What is the best way to report these? Raising an issue for every word encountered doesn't sound very productive.

FPDoc ignores all built-in basic types, like Char, ShortInt. This won't change.

The only known workaround are *topics* of the same name.

DoDi

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
to Ludo Brands: F1 on ShortInt brings up the page ordinal typs which is correct. Char brings up 2…
Ludo Brands wrote 10 lines
> FPDoc ignores all built-in basic types, like Char, ShortInt. > This won't > change. > > The only known workaround are *topics* of the same name. > F1 on ShortInt brings up the page ordinal typs which is correct. Char brings up 2 possibilities the ordinal types page or the char page. The subject was "how to report help problems". So I fail to grab the sense of this comment.

Besides which, the original query was about 'result' which is definitely not a basic type, and we've already seen it causing a less-experienced user problems.

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

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