Expand Mathematica 6 Documentation Searching

Mathematica 6 from Wolfram Research has revamped the way previous versions indexed and exposed documentation. Previously blogged in more detail here.

However, if you are a fan or user of the GUIKit package, you may be surpised on how limited the search results are when using the built-in Documentation Center window.
It turns out that although the locally installed GUIKit package contains the updated documentation and indexing files. Mathematica 6 fails to include the Packages/ directory that GUIKit lives in.

You can add these packages, and updated searching results by adding the following in your local Kernel/init.m:


Needs["ResourceLocator`"];

ApplicationDirectoryAdd[
ToFileName[{$InstallationDirectory, "AddOns"}, "Packages"]];


You could update the ResourceLocator package code with this additional application directory but this style of using an init.m keeps your modifications outside the Mathematica distribution in case of updates.