astropy/astropy — Issue #81: Read the Docs search not working?
Author: cdeil
Created: 2011-11-24 14:09:23+00:00
State: open

The Read the Docs search field in the sidebar does seem pretty useless, e.g. there are no results for 'astropy' or 'wcs':
http://readthedocs.org/docs/astropy/en/latest

It is possible to search the docs sphinx-style by explicitly going to
http://readthedocs.org/docs/astropy/en/latest/search.html

but I think it would be nice / most users would expect a search field with this functionality in the sidebar,
as is the case with most other sphinx-generated documentations outside Read the Docs?

Note that this is not an astropy issue, I looked at a few other projects and there it is the same.
I think this issue is unrelated, but I'm not sure:
https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues/138

If someone else thinks it would be nice to have the usual sphinx search for the project in the sidebar I can investigate further if this is possible with Read the Docs or make a feature request with them.