Re: manual pages

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

Dnia 31-10-2004, nie o godzinie 21:39 +0100, David Necas (Yeti) napisał:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:19:52PM -0700, Neil Zanella wrote:
> > I would love to have manual pages installed on the system with all the gtk
> > function calls. Is it possible to produce this, perhaps from the DocBook
> > sources? The online documentation is really great, and having those
> > docs available from the command line would be even better.
>
> All the HTML documentation is installed with Gtk+ (i.e.,
> off-line) in $datadir/gtk-doc/html.  And .devhelp files
> allow to easily display documentation of a given function in
> links/dillo/mozilla -remote/whatever with a simple script.
> I've even wrote a tool that does approximate matching when
> it doesn't find the identifier exactly (but it's pain to set
> up so I'm not linking it here).  If you want command line
> doc browsing and not exactly man pages, there's IMHO no need
> to generate them.

Umm. In other news, you can use .devhelp files directly with DevHelp,
and have all of its matching capabilities available :) Together with
DevHelp come two tiny functions (for Emacs and Vim) to call DevHelp with
symbol at point as argument[1]. Just copy & paste into your .emacs.
Works great.

Cheers,
Maciej

PS. For the impatient, it's 'devhelp --search=name' ;)

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