From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T11:49:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Documentation for standard library -- what format?

Dan Debertin wrote:
> "jbritt@ruby-doc.org" <jbritt@ruby-doc.org> writes:
> 
> 
> 
>>RD was the first, or one of the first, formats used to document code.
>>Rdoc came along and is, I beleive, the prefered format. 
> 
> 
> With due respect to the authors of RDoc, I have to confess that I'm a
> bit surprised that it still doesn't have a manpage/perldoc-ish
> interface. That is why I stopped using it; I refuse to swap between an
> editor and a web browser in order to access documentation (and often
> the machine I'm using doesn't have a browser).

Eventually ri and rdoc will be integrated, and you'll have your wish 
(and more). However, first I need to invent a machine to make time go 
slowly while I code.

Cheers


Dave