looking up function's doc in emacs

[Xah Lee]

in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f†to lookup the doc
for the function under cursor.

is there such facility when coding in perl, python, php?

(i'm interested in particular python. In perl, i can work around with
“perldoc -f functionNameâ€, and in php it's php.net/functionName. Both
of which i have a elisp command with a shortcut that let me jump to
the doc)

Thanks.

Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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[Daniel Fetchinson]

in programing elisp in emacs, i can press "Ctrl+h f" to lookup the doc

for the function under cursor.

is there such facility when coding in perl, python, php?

(i'm interested in particular python. In perl, i can work around with
"perldoc -f functionName", and in php it's php.net/functionName. Both
of which i have a elisp command with a shortcut that let me jump to
the doc)

Why can't you do the same with pydoc (the command line tool, ususally
installed in /usr/local/bin/pydoc or somewhere else if python shipped
with your distro).

Cheers,
Daniel

 

[Andreas Röhler]

in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f†to lookup the doc
for the function under cursor.

is there such facility when coding in perl, python, php?

(i'm interested in particular python. In perl, i can work around with
“perldoc -f functionNameâ€, and in php it's php.net/functionName. Both
of which i have a elisp command with a shortcut that let me jump to
the doc)

Thanks.

Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄

python help(FUNCTIONNAME)