> On 11 Feb 2015, at 07:40, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote: > > From what I remember,the documentation is now downloaded into the application > itself. > > Please correct me it I'm wrong on this. >
That’s not correct. Xcode ships with some documentation in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Documentation/Docsets, that’s usually docsets for that version of Xcode. When you update documentation however it doesn’t write into the Application (would that even be allowed with a code-signed app?) but puts them in ~/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/Docsets where it also keeps track of what it downloaded. So the latest is in there. Warning that when Xcode updates documentation it deletes the old stuff, sometimes it’s worth keeping a copy. And yes increasingly often, even when the documentation is fully-downloaded and current Xcode *still* insists on going out to the Internet not just to check to make sure yes this really *is* the latest but refusing to use the cached one at all even if you are offline. Mine’s in that state again now, I just checked. This has been a constant complaint/bug the last couple of years .. used to be some Apple employees on the list who were docs gurus and helped out but I’ve not seen them in ages. I gave up with Xcode’s documentation viewer a while ago and downloaded DashCode from the Appstore. It does what you want, it has a pretty good search, there are other features with snippets etc I don’t use and it also has documentation for perl and C and just about every other thing you can think of, which can be handy from time-to-time. That you can point at your Library/Developer/Shared cache of data and you will have online documentation. It’s not free after an initial period but you can install it on all your boxes and you will always have documentation no matter what mood Xcode is in. > On Feb 10, 2015, at 6:19 PM, John Brownie wrote: > >> As indicated before, I'm having trouble with looking at documentation when >> offline. When the internet is not accessible (all too frequently here), I >> can see indexes and searches, but can't get to the actual documentation, as >> they always lead me to the online version. >> >> So, I did a bit of digging around on my computer. I found a bunch of >> documentation (4.5 GB worth) in /Library/Developer/Documentation/DocSets, >> but they date from 2011, and the names imply that they date from Xcode 4. I >> can safely delete those, can't I? >> >> Other documentation is in >> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Documentation/DocSets, and that >> seems to be current for Xcode 6.1.1. My other question is whether there is a >> way to actually look at those apart from through Xcode's documentation >> browser. They seem to be XML files, and Safari doesn't open them in any >> useful fashion. Is there a solution apart from being online? >> >> John >> -- >> John Brownie, [email protected] or [email protected] >> Summer Institute of Linguistics | Mussau-Emira language, Mussau Is. >> Ukarumpa, Eastern Highlands Province | New Ireland Province >> Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/zav%40mac.com >> <https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/zav%40mac.com> >> >> This email sent to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/rols%40rols.org > <https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/rols%40rols.org> > > This email sent to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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