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authorJose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>2010-11-23 01:58:33 +0100
committerJose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>2010-11-23 01:58:33 +0100
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Document browser improvements, and Racket using them
We have a new "manual lookup" command, and Racket now displays a doc browser buffer for help with a button activating it. In the process, we've cleaned-up a little mess in geiser-eval.el and geiser-doc.el, and refactored the affected Racket modules. Next in line is providing manual lookup for Guile.
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@@ -217,11 +217,26 @@ argument is a keyword argument, its name has ``#:'' as a prefix.
@cindex help on identifier
If that's not enough documentation for you, @kbd{C-c C-d d} will open a
-separate documentation buffer with help on the symbol at point. For some
-implementations (e.g. Racket), this separate buffer will actually be a
-web page displaying the corresponding page in the manual, while for
-implementations supporting docstrings (e.g. (you guessed it) Guile)
-it'll be a real Emacs buffer displaying that information.
+separate documentation buffer with help on the symbol at point. This
+buffer will contain implementation-specific information about the
+identifier (e.g., its docstring for Guile, or its contract, if any, for
+Racket), and a handy button to open the corresponding manual entry for
+the symbol, which will open an HTML page (for Racket) or the texinfo
+manual (for Guile).
+
+@cindex module exports
+@anchor{repl-mod} Geiser can also produce for you a list, classified by
+kind, of the identifiers exported by a given module: all you need to do
+is press @kbd{C-c C-d m}, and type or complete the desired module's
+name.
+
+@imgc{repl-mod}
+
+The list of exported bindings is shown, again, in a buffer belonging to
+Geiser's documentation browser, where you have at your disposal a bunch
+of navigation commands listed in @xref{Documentation browser,,our
+cheat-sheet}. We'll have a bit more to say about the documentation
+browser in @xref{doc-browser,,a later section}.
@cindex jump, at the REPL
If that's still not enough, Geiser can jump, via @kbd{M-.}, to the
@@ -232,21 +247,6 @@ will see, these commands are also available in scheme buffers. @kbd{M-.}
also works for modules: if your point is on an unambiguous module name,
the file where it's defined will be opened for you.
-@cindex module exports
-@anchor{repl-mod}
-Finally, Geiser can produce for you a list, classified by kind, of the
-identifiers exported by a given module: all you need to do is press
-@kbd{C-c C-d m}, and type or complete the desired module's name.
-
-@imgc{repl-mod}
-
-The list of exported bindings is shown in a buffer belonging to Geiser's
-documentation browser, of which more details are given in forthcoming
-sections (but just perusing its associated key bindings, by any of the
-methods we've already mentioned, will give you enough information to use
-it). Racketeers will be pleased (i hope) to note that contracts are part
-of the information displayed.
-
@node Customization and tips, , Autodoc and friends, The REPL
@section Customization and tips