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The best feature I loved about TurboPascal was built-in help. Press Ctrl+F1 on any function name, and you are instantly taken to a very good help page, often w
by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
The best feature I loved about TurboPascal was built-in help.
Press Ctrl+F1 on any function name, and you are instantly taken to a very good help page, often with a working code snippet example!!!
I can't overstate how insanely great it was, especially in pre-stackoverflow days!
- jll29 4y agoYou could hack the code of your favourite IDE (e.g. add a macro, modify the source) to google whatever is currently selected (e.g. WriteLn) by you with an additional qualifier site:stackoverflow.com for instance WriteLn site:stackoverflow.com So it would open up the top result of Google's SERP, i.e. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/617654/how-does-writeln-really-work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/617654/how-does-writeln-...
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoThere key difference with this approach is that in TP you had a very good help page, and here you get only the top result. Big difference!
- hulitu 4y agoAnd pray that that the answers on Stackoverflow are relevant.
- ralls_ebfe 4y agoI like using zeal-at-point in emacs, it is quite useful. https://github.com/jinzhu/zeal-at-point https://github.com/jinzhu/zeal-at-point