http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ could use a search feature.

[foodhype]

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[steveklabnik]

tagging rustbook and rustdoc because this is a feature they'd need to add.

[asolove]

I think adding a generic concordance feature or full text search to the underlying mdBook platform is not going to produce good results for an educational book like this. For a term like FnOnce, the chapters that use that term the most are likely not the best first reference for someone searching for that word.

Really good results will probably require some amount of manual effort. For FnOnce, for example, you'd want to have the very first reference be to the spot where it's defined and explained, then further references given to its usage in various examples or specific gotchas or comparisons to other function types.

Unless anyone objects, I'd like to try to manually create entries for a few terms based on the existing material in the new repo. I'll post a comparison to the results those terms get when the text is run through a concordance generator. Then we can compare both the effort and the payoff of the two approaches.

[nodakai]

If it is difficult to add a search function, please consider publishing a concatenated version of the book as a single large HTML and let us use a search function of a web browser.

[0joshuaolson1]

Another option is pointing the user to a general search engine and restricting to the website.

[steveklabnik]

Right now, our search works offline; it'd be nice to not lose that.

[steveklabnik]

rustbook is no longer being developed, in favor of mdbook. If you'd like to see this feature, please report it to mdbook's tracker. Thanks!