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Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

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Re: Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

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post #7

Are there any tools that can read most standard formats of library documentation (cross-language) and then present it all in a standardised way, e.g. in a locally hosted web app?

I use Dash http://kapeli.com/

The only annoying thing is that it updates so frequently to add doc sets I don't care about.

Re: Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

#12
post #3

It seems great. Thanks. Is there any possibility to integrate this with Dash? ( http://kapeli.com ). I like having offline documentation and being able to search dash via alfred with suggestions would be great.

I have dash lookup in alfred (without autocomplete though), by typing dl. I don't remember where I got it from:

on ApplicationIsRunning(appName) tell application "System Events" to set appNameIsRunning to exists (processes where name is appName) return appNameIsRunning end ApplicationIsRunning

on alfred_script(q)

if ApplicationIsRunning("Dash") is false then do shell script "open -a Dash" end if

tell application "Dash" activate end tell

tell application "System Events" keystroke "f" using {option down, command down} keystroke "a" using command down keystroke delete key keystroke q end tell

end alfred_script

Re: Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

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post #3

It seems great. Thanks. Is there any possibility to integrate this with Dash? ( http://kapeli.com ). I like having offline documentation and being able to search dash via alfred with suggestions would be great.

Dash already have some integration with alfred (without the suggestions).

http://cl.ly/image/461y1R1X3L1C

Re: Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

#14
This reminds me of Mozilla's Ubiquity a few years ago [1]. You could write commands for it with JavaScript that would make http requests as you type and render bits of HTML. It seems Ubiquity no longer exists, which is a shame.

I'd love to see something like this that integrates with the browser or command line. Perhaps Ubuntu's Unity comes close.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

Re: Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

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post #11
post #7

Are there any tools that can read most standard formats of library documentation (cross-language) and then present it all in a standardised way, e.g. in a locally hosted web app?

I use Dash http://kapeli.com/ The only annoying thing is that it updates so frequently to add doc sets I don't care about.

Anything that's not OS specific, or compatible with linux?

Re: Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

#17

Oh man, I've been holding off on upgrading Alfred for a while because I didn't see the point, and now I'm upgrading so I can download a free add-on. This is an honest killer app for Alfred's new workflow feature.

thanks :)

Re: Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

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post #15
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Dash http://kapeli.com/ The only annoying thing is that it updates so frequently to add doc sets I don't care about.

Anything that's not OS specific, or compatible with linux?

+1 on the aboce comment.

yeah that's great and all but since it is only on OSX do I need to turn to 'burning and looting'?

Re: Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search

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post #3

It seems great. Thanks. Is there any possibility to integrate this with Dash? ( http://kapeli.com ). I like having offline documentation and being able to search dash via alfred with suggestions would be great.

Hi, Dash's developer here. Dash actually now has a Alfred 2 workflow very similar to the one above. In a nutshell, the Alfred 2 workflow performs the search in Dash in the background and shows the results inside Alfred.

This is what it looks like: http://cl.ly/image/0h2r0d3b1c2h. This is how you get it: https://twitter.com/kapeli/status/316074209568755712.

It's still in beta, so do expect some bugs (although no bugs have been reported so far). If you absolutely don't like betas, wait for the next update of Dash (version 1.8.2).

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