[X Newbies] Help Viewer

Alex alist at sprint.ca
Thu May 20 08:57:30 PDT 2004


On Thursday, May 20, 2004, at 09:32 Canada/Eastern, Anne Keller-Smith 
wrote:

>  [...] How do I limit my searches just to the program I'm in, that I 
> need help on? [...]

Good question. Wish I knew the answer.

A clunky and not very useful workaround is to remove items from the 
Help Center. The Help Center list is kept in 
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.help.plist. Each application which uses 
Apple's help framework has a key in that file, and the file can be 
opened with any text editor (but preferably with PropertyListEditor); 
remove the key, and the item won't appear in HC and won't be searched. 
The key will be added back to the plist when you invoke help from the 
respective application.

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