#138 Python Documentation Integration

[Andreas M.]

Now this may seem a little problematic, since it won't
be platform-independant.

Windows has a nice Hypertext system, but its
proprietary, so it won't be available on Linux.

ActivePython comes with many Python docs converted to a
big CHM file and there is also a stand-alone version
somewhere in the web for the python library reference
in this format. It would be nice to hit a key over text
in the editor and have the CHM file(s) being called
with the word under the cursor.

If such functionality would be implemented, it might
become possible to change the backend in order to allow
for HTTP lookups on Python.org for the same word under
the cursor, so this feature would be available on Linux
too, in a different manner.

Even better would be some way to integrate all these
help-files into the Eclipse help-system, but I have no
idea, how to, even if I guess, that this should be
possible for someone who knows a bit about the
background, since I believe, that it is being based on
HTML files, too, and CHM requires the documents to be
available in HTML as well, so one would need to name
the URI of the HTML files and either download them
locally, passing the local storage to PyDev as a
configvalue or have PyDev initialize its own routine.

Documentation is The Light :-)

[Norbert Thek]

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Feature Request 1418579
is a copy of this

(or this Request is a copy of 1418579 ;-))