Re: Graphical help browser

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  One of the few things I envy Matlab users is their documentation
> browser. We only have the info browser, which IMHO have two problems: 1)
> you have to remember some keyboard shortcuts (that I always forget), and
> 2) it opens in the same window as the Octave prompt meaning I can't look
> at them both at the same time.
>  These days it's quite easy to create special purpose web browsers
> (using webkit), so I figured I'd give it shot. At
> http://hauberg.org/wiki/doku.php?id=help_browser you guys can get the
> source code to a graphical help browser, and see a screen shot. I've
> been using it for the last month or so, and it's quite stable.
>  The only hard part in this is to generate the HTML content, but with
> my patch to rewrite the help system as m-files this was fairly easy.

This looks nice. As it's written in GTK/webkit, you and John might consider
to work on ths same piece of code (there's also some code in octavede
for help browsing), to avoid spreading manpower.

Michael.