I've used jde for four years and love it, thanks for this great software!Have you looked at jde-help-class? It accepts a unqualified class name from the minibuffer, looks it up
Currently, I have 24 separate java packages installed on my machine (and I'm just getting started). Each one has its own javadoc api directory. When I see a class I'm not familiar with I want to see its javadoc, but I often don't know which of the 24 javadoc packages is appropriate to search.
JDE has this great javadoc lookup facility in jde-help-symbol and the docsets variable, but to use it for this kind of browsing I need to:
1. find a .java file with a properly configured prj.el 2. add a declaration for the class I'm looking up 3. add the import for the class 4. invoke jde-help-symbol
It would be very cool if I could use jde-help-symbol (or a new function) to without performing steps 2 and 3 (I appreciate that a properly set docsets is required).
I have enough skill to write a lisp method to prompt for the class name, create a new .java file, fill it a declaration, invoke import, invoke jde-help-symbol, then delete the whole thing. Clearly, a horrible hack.
How can I implement what I want?
Thanks,
and brings up the javadocs. As for help with figuring out which project the class belongs to, maybe you
could create a 25th project with classpath entries and docsets from all the other projects.
Suraj
