[ANN] langhelp-0.9.1

[rubikitch]

Hi,

== Abstract

Langhelp creates an index of documents of various programming languages, and enables you to search documents instantly in Emacs.
If you are a programmer, then you may sometimes wonder, what is the usage of this function?
Langhelp answers the question INSTANTLY.

Currently langhelp supports languages below.
latex
ratpoisonrc
lua
guile
php
c++
c
octave
gauche
python
tcl
m4
sed
screenrc
perl
emacs-lisp
ruby
autoconf
el4r
awk
graphviz-dot
makefile
sh


Langhelp may be the first tool written in EmacsRuby in the world.
In other words, langhelp is an practical example of EmacsRuby script.


It is available at
http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/computer/langhelp/index.en.html


== What's new

=== [2005/12/03] 0.9.1 released
* Adjust to Ruby1.9.
* Langhelp default key binding (C-c s).

=== [2005/12/02] 0.9.0 released
Initial release



== Environment

Langhelp depends on some tools.
* ((<Ruby 1.8.2 or upper|URL:http://www.ruby-lang.org/>))
* emacs21 / xemacs21
* ((<el4r 1.0.0 or upper|URL:http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/computer/el4r/>))

I use Debian GNU/Linux and Emacs21.
Langhelp probably works other GNU/Linux or Unices.
Langhelp may work Windows environment (Meadow + Cygwin).

Langhelp does not compete against other document-lookup tools, but langhelp INTEGRATES document-lookup tools.
The more you have tools, the more usefule langhelp is.


=== Langhelp support tools
The following tools are not mandatory but strengthens langhelp.

: various Info documents
Langhelp treats Info documents VERY EASY.
: ((<w3m|URL:http://w3m.sourceforge.net/>)), ((<emacs_w3m|URL:http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/>))
W3m processes HTML documents.
Emacs-w3m is a WWW browser in Emacs, uses w3m internally.
: Ri
Ri looks up Ruby methods. It is bundled in Ruby distribution.
: ((<Ri for (X)Emacs|URL:http://rubyforge.org/projects/ri-emacs/>))
This tool speeds up `ri' calls.
: ((<luahelp|URL:http://lua-users.org/files/wiki_insecure/users/NormanRamsey/luahelp>))
Luahelp searches ((<Lua|URL:http://www.lua.org/>)) documents.
: ((<Emacs Lisp List|URL:http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/emacs/ell.html>))
There are MANY EmacsLisp programs.
: ((<screenrc.el|URL:http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/computer/screenrc-mode/>))
Major mode for editing screenrc.
: ratpoison.el
Major mode for editing ratpoisonrc. It is bundled in ratpoison distribution.
: ((<bm.el|URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/bm/bm/bm.el?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain>))
Visible bookmarks in buffer.

== Install
First install el4r to run EmacsRuby scripts.
ruby -ropen-uri -e 'URI("http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/archive/el4r-1.0.1.tar.gz").read.display' | tar xzf -
cd el4r-1.0.1
ruby setup.rb

ruby -S el4r-rctool -p
ruby -S el4r-rctool -i


Then install langhelp.
Please execute the following commands.

ruby -ropen-uri -e 'URI("http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/archive/langhelp-0.9.1.tar.gz").read.display' | tar xzvf -

When you failed, please download it from the next link.

* ((<langhelp-0.9.1.tar.gz|URL:http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/archive/langhelp-0.9.1.tar.gz>))

Then, install it.

ruby setup.rb