1 Searching in the Documentation
send-main-page
perform-search
2 Connecting to racket
search-for
find-help/  lib
find-help
go-to-main-page
3 Bug Reporting
help-desk:  report-bug
saved-bug-report-titles/  ids
discard-all-saved-bug-reports
brinfo
5.3.6

Help and Documentation Utilities

This section describes utilities designed to connect to documentation and to support bug reports. See also scribble/xref.

1 Searching in the Documentation

 (require help/search)

procedure

(send-main-page [#:sub sub    
  #:notify notify    
  #:fragment fragment    
  #:query query])  any
  sub : path-string? = "index.html"
  notify : (-> path? void) = void
  fragment : (or/c #f string?) = #f
  query : (or/c #f string?) = #f
Visits the documentation file sub in the user’s browser.

This function builds a URL that points into the main collection documentation or into the user-specific documentation, depending on the sub argument. Once it finds the path, send-main-page passes the path to notify. The fragment and query arguments are passed to send-url/file, along with the URL.

procedure

(perform-search str [context])  void?

  str : string?
  context : 
(or/c #f
      string?
      (list/c string? string?))
 = #f
Searches for str in the documentation. The context argument supplies a context for the search or, if it is two strings, a context for the search and a label for that context.

2 Connecting to racket

The help/help-utils library is dynamically loaded by the help form that is available by default in racket.

procedure

(search-for strs)  void?

  strs : (listof string?)
Calls perform-search after concatenating the elements of strs and adding spaces between them.

procedure

(find-help/lib id lib)  void?

  id : symbol?
  lib : module-path?
Visits the documentation page for id as an export of lib.

procedure

(find-help id)  void?

  id : identifier?
Visits the documentation for id.

procedure

(go-to-main-page)  void?

Visits the main entry page for the documentation.

3 Bug Reporting

 (require help/bug-report)

procedure

(help-desk:report-bug [this-bug-id    
  #:frame-mixin frame-mixin])  void?
  this-bug-id : #f = (or/c #f exact-positive-integer?)
  frame-mixin : (make-mixin-contract frame%) = values
Opens a bug report window to edit the but report identified by this-bug-id. If this-bug-id is #f, then creates a new bug ID and uses that one.

The frame-mixin argument is passed the frame class before creating the window.

Returns a list of the saved bug reports.

Deletes all of the saved bug reports, except those currently open in frames.

struct

(struct brinfo (title id)
  #:extra-constructor-name make-brinfo
  #:transparent)
  title : label-string?
  id : number?
A record representing a saved bug report. The id field is suitable for use with help-desk:report-bug, and the label field is suitable for use in a GUI control.