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> Having all API docs one key press away is profoundly empowering. > While Dash is a $30 Mac app, there’s the free Windows and Linux version called Zeal[1], an
by karmakaze 4y ago
> Having all API docs one key press away is profoundly empowering.
> While Dash is a $30 Mac app, there’s the free Windows and Linux version called Zeal[1], and a $20 Windows app called Velocity[2]. Of course there’s also at least one Emacs package doing the same thing: helm-dash[3].
[0] https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash
[1] https://zealdocs.org/ https://zealdocs.org/ [2] https://velocity.silverlakesoftware.com/ https://velocity.silverlakesoftware.com/ [3] https://github.com/dash-docs-el/helm-dash https://github.com/dash-docs-el/helm-dash
- sgc 4y agoAlso https://devdocs.io/offline https://devdocs.io/offline
- dotancohen 4y agoThanks, Zeal looks interesting until one tries to use it. I've installed Zeal and installed the Python documentation. I can see the Python tree (among others that I've installed) in the sidebar. But searching for "python append to list" or "append to list" return 0 results. In the preferences I enabled fuzzy search, still no results. So I turned to the tree to see how easy it would be able to find the answer. I opened the Python leaf, and from the 15 subleaves I opened Structures. In there I see "PyCompilerFlags", "_frozen", and "_inittab". I'll be sticking to Google, unfortunately.
- mod 4y ago> So I turned to the tree to see how easy it would be able to find the answer Python3 -> Classes -> list I agree it's not easy enough to use the search for this particular case (it's actually very difficult to find the list "add" -- list.append). I'm going to stick it out with zeal, though, and see if I get better at finding what I want. Some similar searches in other languages gave back what I wanted, so maybe it's got to do with how the python docs were imported or something.