context-sensitive help from editor

[Steve Holden]

The ActiveState distributions usually come with a .CHM file, and Robin Dunn
has made such files available through his web site (you can track these down
via www.activestate.com and www.alldunn.com respectively).

I have noticed that some of the inter-section links seem to be missing in
the .CHM versins, but they are nevertheless extremely useful.

regards
 Steve
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http://www.holdenweb.com/


"Mike Maxwell" <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote in message
news:9tbetv$e92$1 at netnews.upenn.edu...
> Excuse me if this has been asked, but I didn't see anything in the FAQ,
the
> archive of this newsgroup (except for a 1995 msg), etc.
>
> My editor (Visual SlickEdit, on Win2k) has context-sensitive help for a
> number of programming languages.  Normally, this calls a Windows Help
(.HLP,
> or nowadays .CHM) file with a keyword.  I would like to be able to do this
> with Python, but all I can find are .html, .PDF, and .PS files, and I
don't
> know how to open one of these at a given keyword (or make it jump to a new
> keyword if it's already open).  I can of course drill down through the
> links, but that misses the point of having context-sensitive help.
>
> Is there a .HLP or .CHM file out there somewhere?  Or is there an easy way
> to turn a .HTML file into a .CHM file?  (Or a way of passing a keyword to
> Adobe Reader or GhostView, so it goes directly to the relevant place in
the
> doc.)
>
> --
>      Mike Maxwell
>      Linguistic Data Consortium
>      maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu
>
>