On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:59:23 +0000 Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> Marco van de Voort wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:52:04PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >>>> blessed with variable network latency. And it's absolutely no substitute > >>>> for the context-sensitive help offered by most IDEs. > >>> Lazarus and the textmode IDE both provide context sensitive help. (CHM > >>> based) > >> Right. So as I said earlier: where's the idiot's guide to getting the > >> up-to-date files and putting them where they'll do most good, > > > > The readme in the relevant docs-chm archive? > > Look, I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt here but in front of me > I've got Lazarus 0.9.31. I go to the menu and hit "Help": it fires up a > browser and takes me to online help. Nowhere there does it say anything > about docs-chm. I added a note about offline help with chmhelp and docview. Maybe the mainainers can give me a short sentence or link for each help viewer. So people know where to start. > I hit F1 over a reserved word, it brings up a dialogue complaining about > a missing file. Nowhere there does it say anything about docs-chm. I could add some hints. Here I need a sentence from the help viewer maintainers too. > I usually build Lazarus from source, downloading from svn. Nowhere there > does it say anything about docs-chm, or it certainly said nothing when I > started working like that four or five years ago. > > So I go to http://www.freepascal.org/ and there's online documentation, > or PDFs etc. Nothing to integrate with Lazarus. True. "Integration" is not the goal of this kind of documentation. > So I go to http://lazarus.freepascal.org/. There's no online > documentation. It's called "Wiki". >[...] Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
