From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-06-19T23:48:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ri keys

R. Mark Volkmann wrote:
> Can someone point me to documentation on valid keystrokes when running ri?
> I'm using the one-click installer under Windows.  It's not clear to me what the
> proper keys are to exit, scroll down or scroll up.  Is it possible to search
> for words within the documentation?  Is is possible to run ri so that you're
> looking at the documentation inside vi or vim?

ri, by default I think, runs through some sort of  'more' pager.  I tend 
to find this annoying, so I have

   RI=-T

in my Windows environment variables.  (But I'm not sure if the behavior 
on my machines is influence by having Cygwin installed)

There is a Ruby menu add-in for vi (well, vim or gvim at least) that 
includes an option to run ri on highlighted text.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=188

If you are looking to run ri such that the results are automagically 
piped into vim ... good question.  I just hacked this:

  REM This is riv.bat
  call ri -T %1 >c:\temp\.ri.tmp
  gvim c:\temp\.ri.tmp

Then you can call

  c:\>riv String

and get the ri text in gvim


but I bet there's a better way to do this.



James

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