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Martin Blais
Description
===========
Haddoc is a simple tool that allows an emacs user to search the Python HTML
documentation indexes and to bring a web browser to an index term page.
Motivation
----------
Even though I have the Python TexInfo documentation installed from my Emacs,
somehow I always end up browsing the documentation from a web browser. Most of
the time I start from either the Python Library Reference or from the index. I
wanted to be able to bring up the documentation from within Emacs. This does
it.
With haddoc, you invoke the elisp function ``haddoc-lookup`` (I type ``C-c .``),
enter some search terms, and the matches from the Python indexes are shown in a
buffer, from which you can select to direct your external web browser to. I
like to drive an external Firefox with it.
Design
------
I took the simple approach and wrote a combination of Emacs-LISP and Python code
to implement this:
* ``haddoc-update``: a Python script that will parse the HTML documentation
indexes and generate a mapping of the index entries to the HTML pages in a DBM
database (in ``/var/lib/haddoc/haddoc.db`` by default)
* ``haddoc-lookup``: a Python script that does a lookup of search terms
(potentially incomplete) on the index keys and returns the page references for
each of the search terms on stdout
* ``haddoc.el``: an Emacs-LISP package that can query the results of
``haddoc-lookup`` and spawn a webbrowser to the appropriate pages.
Download at:
http://furius.ca/downloads/haddoc/releases/
Cheers,
===========
Haddoc is a simple tool that allows an emacs user to search the Python HTML
documentation indexes and to bring a web browser to an index term page.
Motivation
----------
Even though I have the Python TexInfo documentation installed from my Emacs,
somehow I always end up browsing the documentation from a web browser. Most of
the time I start from either the Python Library Reference or from the index. I
wanted to be able to bring up the documentation from within Emacs. This does
it.
With haddoc, you invoke the elisp function ``haddoc-lookup`` (I type ``C-c .``),
enter some search terms, and the matches from the Python indexes are shown in a
buffer, from which you can select to direct your external web browser to. I
like to drive an external Firefox with it.
Design
------
I took the simple approach and wrote a combination of Emacs-LISP and Python code
to implement this:
* ``haddoc-update``: a Python script that will parse the HTML documentation
indexes and generate a mapping of the index entries to the HTML pages in a DBM
database (in ``/var/lib/haddoc/haddoc.db`` by default)
* ``haddoc-lookup``: a Python script that does a lookup of search terms
(potentially incomplete) on the index keys and returns the page references for
each of the search terms on stdout
* ``haddoc.el``: an Emacs-LISP package that can query the results of
``haddoc-lookup`` and spawn a webbrowser to the appropriate pages.
Download at:
http://furius.ca/downloads/haddoc/releases/
Cheers,