Visual Studio Code Dash

Dash documentation integration for Visual Studio Code

Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager for MacOS

Also support Zeal and Velocity.

Installation

Type cmd + shift + p to launch command palette and choose Extensions: Install Extension. Search this package and install.

Usage

Get the text under your cursor or selected first:

• Pressing ctrl + h. It will search for current specific documentation depends on language.
• Pressing ctrl + alt + h. It will search for all documentation.

No need to select the text:

• Pressing ctrl + shift + h. It will open dash with current file's docset.
• Pressing alt + h. It will open dash with custom string and current file's docset.

Supported Docsets

This plugin supports almost all docset configuration based on Dash Mapping

Language to docset matching

This plugin supports language to docset mapping.

For other languages that are not supported by default in VS Code, you probably need to install language plugins first in order to allow VS Code to detect the language.

Language	Dash Docset Keys	Docset Setting	Language Plugin
Ansible	ansible	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.ansible, dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.ansible-advanced	link
C++	cpp,net,boost,qt,cvcpp,cocos2dx,c,manpages	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.cpp	link
C#	net,mono,unity3d	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.csharp
Clojure	clojure	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.clojure
Cmake	cmake	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.cmake	link
CoffeeScript	coffee	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.coffee
CSS	css,bootstrap,foundation,less,awesome, cordova,phonegap	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.css
Dart	dartlang,polymerdart,angulardart	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.dart	link
Elixir	elixir	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.elixir	link
Erlang	erlang	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.erlang
Go	go,godoc	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.go	link
Gradle	gradle	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.gradle	link
Haskell	haskell	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.haskell
Haml	haml	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.haml	link
Haxe	haxe	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.haxe	link
HTML	html,svg,css,bootstrap,foundation, awesome,statamic,javascript,jquery,jqueryui, jquerym,angularjs,backbone,marionette, meteor,moo,prototype,ember,lodash, underscore,sencha,extjs,knockout, zepto,cordova,phonegap,yui	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.html
Jade	jade	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.jade
Java	java,javafx,grails,groovy,playjava,spring, cvj,processing	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.java	link
JavaScript	javascript,jquery,jqueryui,jquerym,react, angularjs,backbone,marionette,meteor, sproutcore,moo,prototype,bootstrap, foundation,lodash,underscore,ember, sencha,extjs,titanium,knockout,zepto, yui,d3,svg,dojo,coffee,nodejs,express, grunt,mongoose,moment,require, awsjs,jasmine,sails,sinon,chai, html,css,cordova,phonegap,unity3d	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.javascript
Julia	julia	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.julia	link
Kotlin	androidktx,kotlin	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.kotlin	link
Latex	latex	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.latex	link
Less	less	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.less
Lua	lua,corona	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.lua	link
Markdown	markdown	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.markdown
Objective-C	iphoneos,macosx,watchos,tvos, appledoc,cocos2d,cocos3d, kobold2d,sparrow,c,manpages	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.objective-c
Perl	perl,manpages	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.perl
PHP	php,wordpress,drupal,zend,laravel,yii,joomla,ee, codeigniter,cakephp,phpunit,symfony,typo3, twig,smarty,craft,phpp,html,statamic,mysql, sqlite,mongodb,psql,redis	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.php
Processing	processing	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.pde	link
Puppet	puppet	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.puppet	link
Python	python,django,twisted,sphinx,flask,tornado, sqlalchemy,numpy,scipy,salt,pandas,matplotlib,cvp	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.python	link
R	r	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.r
Ruby	ruby,rubygems,rails	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.ruby	link
Rust	rust	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.rust	link
Sass	sass,compass,bourbon,neat,susy,css	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.sass
Scala	scala,akka,playscala	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.scala
Shell Scripts	bash,manpages	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.shellscript
SQL	mysql,sqlite,psql	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.sql
Stylus	stylus	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.stylus	link
Swift	swift,iphoneos,macosx,watchos,tvos,appledoc	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.swift	link
Tcl	tcl	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.tcl	link
Terraform	terraform	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.terraform	link
TypeScript	typescript	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.typescript
YAML	chef,ansible	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.yaml

Added docset in this plugin

Language	Dash Docset Keys	Docset Setting	Language Plugin
Elm	elm	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.elm	link
React	react	dash.languageIdToDocsetMap.javascriptreact	link

File name to docset matching

This plugin also supports file name matching to docset, this is useful to target docset for any specific file name such as docker.yml or vagrantfile.

NOTE: You can use glob pattern to define the file name

File Name	Dash Docset Keys	Docset Setting
[dD]ocker*	docker	dash.fileNameToDocsetMap["docker.yml"]
vagrantfile	vagrant	dash.fileNameToDocsetMap["vagrantfile"]
gruntfile.js	grunt	dash.fileNameToDocsetMap["gruntfile.js"]
gulpfile.js	gulp	dash.fileNameToDocsetMap["gulpfile.js"]
*.ino	arduino	dash.fileNameToDocsetMap["*.ino"]

What is Dash Docset Keys?

You can find dash docset key in Dash application.

Change Docset Configuration

You can change docset in settings.json or pressing cmd + ,. Every configuration start with dash.docset. See Docset Setting column in Supported Docset table above.

Example Case:

Based on default docset configuration, if we search in typescript files (.ts), it will search in typescript docset. But now we want to make it able to search in javascript docset too.

Type cmd + , then we change typescript docset by adding new dash docset key "javascript". So, whenever we search from typescript files, it will search in typescript and javascript docset.

The result will look like below:

// settings.json, add lines below
"dash.languageIdToDocsetMap": {
  ...,
  "typescript": [
    "typescript",
    "javascript" // we add new dash docset key here
  ]
  ...
}

Change Keyboard Shortcut

You can bind default shortcut to another shortcut keys

Choose in top menu Code -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts or using shortcuts cmd + K, cmd + S

Add one or two lines below

{ "key": "your_shortcut", "command": "extension.dash.specific" }, // search selection in corresponding docset
{ "key": "your_shortcut", "command": "extension.dash.all" } // search in all docset
{ "key": "your_shortcut", "command": "extension.dash.emptySyntax" } // open dash with current file's docset open
{ "key": "your_shortcut", "command": "extension.dash.searchSyntax" } // open dash with custom string and current file's docset

Contributors

Thank you for these awesome contributors

Budi Irawan 💻 📖	Dima Granetchi 💻 📖	Logan Saso 💻 📖	Zhongren Shao 💻 📖	dingweifeng 📖	Seth Bromberger 💻 📖	br1anchen 💻
Won Kim 💻	Cuyler Stuwe 💻	Cahya Pribadi 💻	Marko Kajzer 💻	akdir 💻

License

MIT © Budi Irawan