Have you tried Hoogle? I know you can install it locally and use it from
GHCi or Emacs. I'm not familiar with ri, but from your description I think
a local Hoogle would serve the same purpose with the added benefit of being
able to search by types.

Here's the wiki page about it: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hoogle


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds <
[email protected]> wrote:

> RI is a very easy using tool that search and show the documents of ruby
> modules/functions, etc.
> Using RI, I could get help when programming with a few commands. Quick and
> simple.
> And with RI backend (libs), I could also simply integrate ri to my IDE
> (like one hotkey to show function summary).
>
> So I am wondering if there is such thing in Haskell world. I know haddock
> saves the .haddock files in document folder. But I do not know if there is
> any existing tools to index and view them.
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