Pylookup

1. M-x pylookup-lookup

• M-x pylookup-lookup, (set your local key map)

2. Ido autocompletion

• Interactive do interface to search keywords
• C-r, C-s : next/prev match

3. Search results

• Results of searching a keyword
• n/p : next/prev line
• C-v,M-v : scroll up/down
• q : quit
• Space/Enter : lookup document

4.Read in your browser

• You can see the proper python document in your favorite browser, w3m, firefox, ie or whatever.

Checkout

git clone git@github.com:tsgates/pylookup.git

Edit .emacs

;; add pylookup to your loadpath, ex) "~/.lisp/addons/pylookup"
(setq pylookup-dir "[PATH]")
(add-to-list 'load-path pylookup-dir)
;; load pylookup when compile time
(eval-when-compile (require 'pylookup))

;; set executable file and db file
(setq pylookup-program (concat pylookup-dir "/pylookup.py"))
(setq pylookup-db-file (concat pylookup-dir "/pylookup.db"))

;; to speedup, just load it on demand
(autoload 'pylookup-lookup "pylookup"
  "Lookup SEARCH-TERM in the Python HTML indexes." t)
(autoload 'pylookup-update "pylookup" 
  "Run pylookup-update and create the database at `pylookup-db-file'." t)

• Change [PATH] variable to proper path where you installed pylookup
• Add above code in your .emacs

Keybinding

(global-set-key "\C-ch" 'pylookup-lookup)

Lookup downloaded documents

• Update Database (In repository, there is database to lookup online document, but slow to load in a browser)

$ cd ~/.lisp/addons/pylookup
$ ./pylookup.py -u file:///home/tsgates/.lisp/addons/pylookup/python-2.6.2-docs-html
$ ./pylookup.py -l test
COMPARISON_FLAGS (in module doctest) [lib];file:///home/tsgates/.lisp/addons/pylookup...

• Move to pylookup directory
• Execute pylookup.py with your absolute python document path, download from here
• Test by executing pylookup.py -l test and check pylookup indicating proper path you set

Default browser

(setq browse-url-browser-function 'w3m-browse-url) ;; w3m
(setq browse-url-default-browser "firefox.exe")    ;; firefox in M$ Windows

• Change to your preferneces