I wrote up a script to do this and posted it to the wiki in case anyone else finds it useful
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JoeBogner/InlineDictionary On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > jhs makes rendering it a snap > > html=:gethttp_wgethttp_ 'http://www.jsoftware.com/help/',page,'.htm' > jhtml html > > that could work for now > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a utility to query the dictionary in the J session without >> causing a web browser to open? >> >> It'd be similar to context sensitive help but brings the result text >> right into the session. It might need some logic to reformat the HTML into >> a readable plain text representation >> >> Along those sames lines, is there a way to invoke the help without using >> context sensitive help? Something like help ';' even if that opens up the >> browser that could be helpful instead of searching manually or typing the >> word and hitting ctrl+f1 >> >> If it's not written already, it looks like it wouldn't be too much work >> using jqt as a starting point >> >> require '~addons/ide/qt/help.ijs' >> require '~addons/web/gethttp/gethttp.ijs' >> >> help=:conew 'jqtide' >> >> >> ] page=.helpsel__help ';' >> >> NB. dictionary/d330 >> >> >> gethttp_wgethttp_ 'http://www.jsoftware.com/help/',page,'.htm' >> >> As mentioned, this would need some parsing logic to make it more readable >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
