Is there a command line program to lookup Scaladoc?

Question

Ruby has a program called ri where you can type in 'ri Array' and get its manpage. Is there something like that for scaladoc?

Tampon

Answer 1

Not that I know of, but it would be cool. I don't think it would be too hard to do it, given that scaladoc (I heard) is supposed to be kind of pluggable.

Mateo

I'm thinking more like a command-line script that reuses the static HTML/JS artifacts already on disk, assuming the user has installed the doc bundle. Either way, it'd be nice. – Roden

Answer 2

Now that the Scaladoc web "app" is being enhanced with indexes for fast in-browser search, this kind of thing should become much easier, especially now that there's always a JS interpreter in JDK6. I'd suggest filing an enhancement request. :)

Roden

a command line app would be great because it'll allow easy lookup in vim/emacs. – Tampon

Answer 3

vim-scaladoc was released in late 2012.

Bombe

Answer 4

With a command-line browser like elinks, and just one directory which matches scaladoc, you can use:

#!/bin/bash
for link in $(locate scaladoc | grep $1); do elinks $link ; done

European

Answer 5

Stefan Zeiger's Extradoc would probably be a good basis for this and other documentation tools.

Dodiedodo