Hi, I was trying to configure jde-help to see some javadoc directories in Jakarta (the commons libraries) and I had to fix a number of problems in the process. Here is what I did in the hopes it might help someone else:
1) Once I enabled the extra docsets pointing to the jakarta javadocs, jde-help-symbol started to fail with a very cryptic message, something like "wrong type, (sequencep, 2)" or something like that . I traced it down to the method jde-help-find-javadoc, more precisely to this code: (if jde-help-wget-tries (concat "--tries=" jde-help-wget-tries)) I fixed by changing it to: (if jde-help-wget-tries (concat "--tries=" (format "%d" jde-help-wget-tries))) Same thing on the line below: (if jde-help-wget-timeout (concat "--timeout=" (format "%d" jde-help-wget-timeout))) 2) After that step wget was still failing on me - but then it was a local environment problem, since we use an http proxy at work. Adding a .wgetrc with the proper info solved the problem. It seems that jde-help tries all the docsets, even if it finds the help for the class at point in the first one. I believe this should be optimized - it is already a little slow as is. Regards, Nascif