Documentation lookup

[olejorgenb]

Ideally we want this inline in emacs. Maybe use https://github.com/jinzhu/zeal-at-point .

Preliminary research:

We can easily get the corresponding native c function when we can evaluate the js function:

global.display.focus_window.change_workspace
//: function change_workspace(workspace) {
//: 	/* proxy for native symbol meta_window_change_workspace(); */
//: }

Doesn't seem to be a global (all gnome packages) index unfortunately. It's not possible in general to extract the package name from the method name. (Some packages have multiple words). We can of course hard code such mappings.

• https://people.gnome.org/~gcampagna/docs/ (old generated docs for the gjs bindings)
• https://github.com/GNOME/gjs-documentation (How the above was generated I think)
• https://github.com/AhmadHamzeei/GTK-Zeal-Docset/ (Does not include mutter, ubuntu does not have libmutter-doc...)
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/devhelp/tree/README
• https://developer.gnome.org/meta/ (has downloadable html files)
• devdocs.baznga.org/ (No mutter here either) How they generate the docs: ptomato/devdocs@2860f07

To control which browser window to open a link in: simply focus it before opening the link.

[olejorgenb]

Yey! https://developer.gnome.org/symbols/?q=meta_window_get_mutter_hints

There's also a endpoint for looking up partial symbols: eg. https://developer.gnome.org/symbols/lookup/get_children
The query will be surrounded by wildcards. It's possible to embed wildcards using % (URI encoded %25).
Max 50 results.
Source: https://git.gnome.org/browse/library-web/tree/web/api.py

There is a search box at the bottom of https://developer.gnome.org/references