Conext sensitive help for IDLE (was: [Python-Dev] Py2.3.1)
Thomas Heller
theller at python.net
Wed Aug 27 22:02:28 EDT 2003
"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at acm.org> writes:
> Thomas Heller writes:
> > But doesn't something like swish (I've used that in the past) allow to
> > index and search the doc tree?
>
> Should be able to, if someone does the work to integrate it. I'm not
> sure if there's currently a Python binding; I only looked at their
> website briefly a month or so ago.
>
> > OTOH: pyhelp.cgi does keyword search using the same technique as the one
> > used to the the htmlhelp keywords, and is cross platform as well ;-)
>
> Then by all means, feel free to hook that up in IDLE!
(I fear this is getting off-topic for python-dev)
The only thing I do not know is how to display a list of urls found, and
let the user select one. Is there any functionality in IDLE for this?
Thomas
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