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Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Post by malnourish »

I've used this off and on for a while, but the hardest thing for me is breaking the google habbit (or ddg as often as not in my case) and actually performing the search on that site.

I can !dd with duckduckgo to get to devdocs, but I wish there was some natural language processing that knew I wanted to look up a cpp/rust what have you term and send me there.

Additionally, C# doesn't seem to be included, which is a big bummer.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#54

Post by gry »

a_bored_husky wrote: post #43
majewsky wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Shift+K" does the same in vim. However, it looks for a manpage matching the word under the cursor, so it won't help you unless you're doing C or Perl.

`K` in vim uses the program defined in `keywordprg` which is `man` by default, but can be set to whatever you want according to the file type.

Remapping `K` to devdocs.vim is quite handy.

https://github.com/rhysd/devdocs.vim

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#56

Post by holtalanm »

Thibaut wrote: post #28
mosselman wrote: post #16

Due to some very annoying behaviour of gratipay (the donation service devdocs uses) I have donated over $100 to them last year of the course of a few months. Not what I wanted to donate, but then again there aren't many websites that I use more often in my day to day work. So I am not too bummed about it. Great work guys!

Thanks! Your donation is very much appreciated. Don't feel like you have to donate, though. The app is cheap to host (one of the benefits of an offline-enabled, no-accounts-required, optimized-to-the-max web app is that the backend doesn't do much :P), and I'm lucky that MaxCDN & others are providing free service to the app. What keeps me going is seeing the impact that DevDocs is having (people using and liking it).…

I was going to suggest -- a VS Code Extension would be cool.

edit: nvm. I found it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=akfish.v...

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#57

Post by ChrisSD »

malnourish wrote: post #53

I've used this off and on for a while, but the hardest thing for me is breaking the google habbit (or ddg as often as not in my case) and actually performing the search on that site. I can !dd with duckduckgo to get to devdocs, but I wish there was some natural language processing that knew I wanted to look up a cpp/rust what have you term and send me there. Additionally, C# doesn't seem to be included, which is a bi…

This sounds like a job for a browser extension.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#58

Post by irrational »

raresp wrote: post #17
marceldegraaf wrote: post #10

Reminds me of Dash[1] which is especially useful when configured in your editor: press a key to open documentation for the word under the cursor. 1: https://kapeli.com/dash

Yes, but this is free and more complex.

More complex or more complete?
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