"Find in Reference" menu item seems useless (for pinMode)

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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I am using IDE 2.3.7.

When I highlight pinMode in a sketch, and I select “Find in Reference”, it brings up the Arduino web site with some search results. OK, not great, but not useless.

Now I narrow down the results to “Reference” (25 results) and it gives me those results. Great.

Then I click on the first result and it says the web page does not exist. It looks like the URL in the search result uses lower-case “pinmode” while the correct URL would use “pinMode.” Am I doing something wrong? Why can’t it work correctly here?

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Looks like the path has changed at some point and 'language-reference/' is missing. Its actually here.

When I tried this, the term pinMode itself appeared for me at the bottom of page 2 instead of where you would expect, as the first entry on page 1.

Yeah, would be nice if the links could be updated.

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This is the broken URL that it gives me:

https://docs.arduino.cc/language-reference/en/functions/digital-io/pinmode?queryID=1bf7b39751258edfeca7842d0cf6c5f3

If I change pinmode to pinMode, then the URL works.

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Broken...

https://docs.arduino.cc/language-reference/en/functions/digital-io/pinmode

Versus actual...

https://docs.arduino.cc/language-reference/en/functions/digital-io/pinMode/

Only difference is the M case.

I saw this same "type" of error recently (days). The same link from one launch-page went to an intended landing-page and another launch-page link was sent to a page that got re-directed to the intended (same) landing-page. Both launching URLs were the same reference link.

There are two (or more) non-synchronized servers... probably plotting to take over the world.

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I checked some other search results, and they all look good. So far it’s only pinMode that’s the problem. So it is useful, just not for pinMode.

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This is what it looks like for me:

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And the "broken" link I see for the 'pinMode()' tile bottom centre:

https://docs.arduino.cc/en/functions/digital-io/pinMode?queryID=82e2ad3ec1389aa557271bcfe5fc6712

I am using the Firefox browser on Linux.

I seem to be getting something different to @austin944 and @xfpd for some reason.

Just for reference, the top section of page 1 of the search :confused::

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Using Help -> Find in reference or Ctrl-Shft-F. IDE version 2.3.7.

The link for analogWrite() also seems broken:

https://docs.arduino.cc/language-reference/en/functions/analog-io/analogwrite?queryID=6273c0c9be931ee3dcfb4ed9b2919102

But @xfpd is correct, only the odd link is broken. The majority seem to work fine.