From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2001-08-18T10:03:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19963] Re: TIP: invoking help from the scite editor on win32

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On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:38, Bernard Delm�e wrote:
> Right, suppose you're a Win32 user (there goes half the crowd...)
> Then you probably already know about the HTML Help version of
> the pragmatic programmers' book "Programming Ruby". It is bundled
> with the latest ruby distributions Andy has prepared, or can be
> grabbed at http://www.bdelmee.easynet.be/ruby/index.html
>
> There is an easy way to look it up from within the very capable
> Scite editor, which has ruby color highlighting since version 1.38
> http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDownload.html
>
> Once you've installed scite, edit its $SCITE_HOME/ruby.properties
> file, and add the following three lines:
>
> --------><--------
> if PLAT_WIN
>     command.help.*.rb=$(CurrentWord)!c:\ruby\ProgrammingRuby.chm
>     command.help.subsystem.*.rb=4
> --------><--------
>
> Of course this assumes you've wisely let the ruby installation
> happen under 'C:\Ruby'.
> From then on, hitting the <F1> key from a scite buffer with a ruby
> file loaded will invoke the help viewer with an index entry
> selected that begins with the word currently highlighted. You then
> need to hit the <Display> button or double-click the index entry.
>
> This is not context sensitive; if you have hilighted a call to
> the 'close' method, the above method would present you with the
> 'close (dir)' entry whereas you may actually be interested in
> 'close (network)'. But scite does not know whether the object on
> which the method is invoked represents a directory, a socket
> or a wombat! Still I thought I'd share the trick.
> And oh, I suggest you leave the help file open, so you wont
> need to launch the help viewer for each word lookup.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bernard.

This is quite cool - thanks for sharing it. I've recently started 
using SciTE and am very impressed with this small compact little 
editor.

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Signed,
Holden Glova
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