General API Documentation Browser for linux?

loozye · 2013-03-09 02:13:03

Hello! I've been looking for something like this:
http://kapeli.com/
(dash) for linux, just so I can store and organise documentation offline. I have played around with things like devhelp, monodoc but my issue was that they're very specific in scope, and really don't have a pleasant way to get rid of irrelevant documentation and add the things I'm interested in. Does this even exist? If not, does anyone have any recommendations for other ways to do this?

drcouzelis · 2013-03-09 04:10:06

I've never heard of anything like that before, and am still having a little trouble understanding what it's for.

It looks like "dash" focuses a lot on Objective-C and the Cocoa API. Is there a specific language or API that you want an easy reference for?

I just use man pages and a downloaded collection of whatever API I'm currently learning. Sometimes I'll just read the header files. Maybe I'm old fashioned. Maybe I'm a lousy programmer and could be doing it a better way.

loozye · 2013-03-09 06:08:53

I'm sure it's not much more than a pretty way to collect your documentation, but I dig the search feature (and I am terribly fond of pretty things). I also spend a lot of time unsure of whether I'll have a network connection, so it'd be nice to have a convenient way to look things up, switch between docs easily, so on. (And it's so pretty.) Specific languages, not really, but I'm learning and would like to add as I go--that's actually why I was a bit grumpy about devhelp & co, because they're a bit too specific and don't make adding docs even remotely easy.

Also, I'm quite certain that I'm the lousy programmer, but I'm anticipating a long plane ride and dearly hope to become a little better during that ride.

mandalic · 2013-10-25 18:55:56

You may want to try out Zeal

mandos · 2014-04-28 21:16:03

not meaning to necropost, but I wanted to thank you for posting about Zeal!

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#1 2013-03-09 02:13:03

General API Documentation Browser for linux?

#2 2013-03-09 04:10:06

Re: General API Documentation Browser for linux?

#3 2013-03-09 06:08:53

Re: General API Documentation Browser for linux?

#4 2013-10-25 18:55:56

Re: General API Documentation Browser for linux?

#5 2014-04-28 21:16:03

Re: General API Documentation Browser for linux?

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