Folks,

I recently installed FC2 and have been using it for a week or so. I noticed that Yelp 2.6?? or HELP doesn't have a feature that I used all the time uder FC1. That feature is "Index" from the main menu/ and toolbar.

Index would let me start typing the name of a linux command on the left - while it showed me a list of valid commands spelled the same; I could then choose a comand from that list and have it's man or info page displayed in the its browser window on the right.

I can't seem to enable or find that function anymore. Maybe it wasn't yelp? All I knwo for sure is - if I pressed the "Help" icon (the one with the life raft symbol) on the normal gnome panel - this program started up.

Anyone know how to tweak help to re-enable this feature ?

James,

upgraded to fedora2. I had been using the index and search with general man pages, info pages and perl and perl modules man pages a lot in fed1. Wow that was great. It made the perl docs and general Unix man/info accessible from gnome in a nice seamless way.

man pages still work after a fashion in that you can still see a man page but only by supplying the full path like this;
yelp man:/usr/share/man/en/man1/man.1.gz

doesn't address the missing index and is too clumsy. I really miss that index. and the yelp info was great. ( I have a very real fear of the text mode info tool, the only help tool to rival clippy )

I note too it is hard to get help on yelp in yelp.

yelp in 2.4 was great. I didn't realize that I had come to rely on it.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140951

Dear Yelp fans,

Yes, I had the same problems, as I used Yelp's index facilities for GTK+ application development. Quite annoyed to see it missing from FC2 Yelp.

The obvious way out is of course to go back to the FC1 version of Yelp, and that's exactly what I did. Works for me. Just remove the FC2 version and install the FC1 one, using RPM.

And now we'll have to wait for a Yelp patch bringing back our beloved Index facilities. From looking at bugzilla.gnome.org this doesn't seem to be any time soon!

Greetings from Holland,

Bart van Dijk

Thanks for the info -- I was thinking about doing just that.