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Re: [Chicken-users] RFC: documentation lookup utility
From: |
Mario Domenech Goulart |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] RFC: documentation lookup utility |
Date: |
14 Aug 2006 23:03:18 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
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