Re: [Chicken-users] RFC: documentation lookup utility

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hello Toby,

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:52:05 -0400 Toby Butzon <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:59:19PM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> > Typing a word into a URL is not really the kind of documentation I 
> > want.  I want to click on a word in the editor I'm using and be taken to 
> > relevant documentation.  I don't want to use my brain, I want the 
> > computer to do that.
> 
> I agree with you that editor-integrated documentation is nice. I haven't
> seen anything like that for Chicken yet

A very modest start is at
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/man.html.  There's
a dirty trick to bind a key to an Emacs function to show the
documentation for a word under the cursor (e.g., a chicken procedure
name).

Best wishes,
Mario