Zeal looks cool, I'm going to use it, but it has a lot of problems.
- the last release was October 2018. The repo shows activity up to 2 months ago, and I'm sure the last release works fine, but it doesn't seem very active. That wouldn't be a problem, I believe software can be done, except...
- the installation documentation is very much lacking. The "make -B build" on the README doesn't work, the build instructions on the wiki is empty except for per distro instructions, the package release for Debian doesn't exist, and the ppa points to an old IP.
That said, I got it working. It seems pretty cool, haven't used it yet, but from what I can see, it is very mouse centric and no keyboard controls, has popup windows and a system tray icon (I loathe them), so for a tiling wm not quite the best. But it does what I need it to do: download docsets, keep them up to date via the RSS feeds for Dash, search them.
I'd love a tool like this but more keyboard oriented, specifically vim like keybinds but any keybind system would work. I know there's an emacs package "helm-dash" but I don't use emacs. I might try it just for this tool.
All in all I think this is going to make my life a lot better. I like to disconnect from the world, but I want to be able to code while disconnected and zeal could enable me to do that.
It's very cool, when I was learning PHP on a slower computer I downloaded the documentation as a Windows help file. Nowadays I just DuckDuckGo it and it's still a much slower process, having the docs offline with Zeal is much faster...
Not for me. Maybe I need to dig in, I'm on bullseye, maybe it's only in the older build repositories?
Anyway, I found this https://github.com/qwfy/doc-browser that I'm compiling right now to see how it works, looks keyboard focused, simpler and supports DevDocs, and bonus it supports Hoogle if you're a Haskeller.
- the last release was October 2018. The repo shows activity up to 2 months ago, and I'm sure the last release works fine, but it doesn't seem very active. That wouldn't be a problem, I believe software can be done, except...
- the installation documentation is very much lacking. The "make -B build" on the README doesn't work, the build instructions on the wiki is empty except for per distro instructions, the package release for Debian doesn't exist, and the ppa points to an old IP.
That said, I got it working. It seems pretty cool, haven't used it yet, but from what I can see, it is very mouse centric and no keyboard controls, has popup windows and a system tray icon (I loathe them), so for a tiling wm not quite the best. But it does what I need it to do: download docsets, keep them up to date via the RSS feeds for Dash, search them.
I'd love a tool like this but more keyboard oriented, specifically vim like keybinds but any keybind system would work. I know there's an emacs package "helm-dash" but I don't use emacs. I might try it just for this tool.
All in all I think this is going to make my life a lot better. I like to disconnect from the world, but I want to be able to code while disconnected and zeal could enable me to do that.