[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: haskell-docs - Given a module name and a name, it will find and display the documentation of that name.

Ahoy hoy, Just thought I'd announce a tool I whipped up these evening to take a module name and a name and output the installed Haddock documentation for it. Examples with my GHCi session: λ> :doc Data.List.Split split Split a list according to the given splitting strategy. This is how to "run" a Splitter that has been built using the other combinators. λ> :doc Control.Concurrent.MVar swapMVar Take a value from an MVar, put a new value into the MVar and return the value taken. This function is atomic only if there are no other producers for this MVar. λ> :doc Data.List sort Ambiguous module, belongs to more than one package: base haskell2010-1.1.0.1 Continuing anyway... Package: base The sort function implements a stable sorting algorithm. It is a special case of sortBy, which allows the programmer to supply their own comparison function. Please have a play with it, the package is at: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-docs It has installation instructions. Feel free to share any issues that you have, either here, or on the Github page: https://github.com/chrisdone/haskell-docs There are some issues to do with versioning that I'm not sure how to solve in a standard way. The obvious next step is to have a -package-conf flag so that it can be used with cabal-dev. The wizards on #haskell are currently thinking of a way to avoid having to write the module name and just use what's in scope. Ciao!