#1572: Make it easy to find documentation for installed packages
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Reporter: simonpj | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.6.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Changes (by claus):
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Comment:
there are also other tools who'd like easy access to that information, on
behalf of the user;-) for instance, one of my haskell mode plugins for vim
uses haddock's index to figure out which haskell identifiers have
documentation, and where to find it:
[http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/toolbox/haskell/Vim/
haskell_doc.vim]
one would like at least '''a central html table of contents plus a central
index for the user, plus a more accessible format of the index for ide-
like tools'''. currently, the toc and index contain all packages built
together with ghc, but the information in the index isn't easily
accessible for tools. preferably, added packages should integrate their
toc and index with the central ones (or include the central ones into
their own central toc and index, if they are a user-build).
also, i have found that ghc-pkg reports where the docs *might* be, even if
they aren't installed! perhaps there should be a separate documentation
package associated with each binary package?
this is also related to #1226 (finding ghc user_guide installed location).
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1572>
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