A shell for DevDocs.
I liked DevDocs and wanted to use it from
VIM. I've tried browser automation with Chromium
and separate profile with --remote-shell-port, but that didn't work
out so I made this script.
- Python 2.7+ or 3+
- WebKit2Gtk
- Gtk3 along with Python bindings (the new ones: GObject Inrospection)
Just run devdocs.py. If you provide an argument then first argument
will be searched (all other arguments are ignored).
Just add this to your .vimrc:
command! -nargs=? DevDocs :call system('devdocs.py <args> &')
au FileType python,ruby,javascript,html,php,eruby,coffee nmap <buffer> K :exec "DevDocs " . fnameescape(expand('<cword>'))<CR>
You'll have a command DevDocs and supported languages with use it for
providing help (K in normal mode, usually runs man).
NOTE: devdocs.py doesn't go to background hence one needs to use
& (shell background job) and its not supported on Win32.
- After https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127410 make sure HTML5 database is in app config directory.
- Maybe add tabs to open multiple terms?