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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> > It is quite a bit harder to do that if the docs are in the wiki, but
>>
>> > that might fall under:
>> How is it harder?
>
> IMO it's not harder, but very much more convenient.
>
> If you're grepping the tree for invocations of "foo()" then it'll bring up
> documentation at the same time, which reminds you to update it.

Google is very competitive with local grep, and will also remind you
to update the help wiki etc.

I hope some day we can do things in Launchpad that reduce the need for this:

 * edit in place on the web
 * faster deployment
 * show formatted documentation out of a branch

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