#548: Aid in function lookup in IDEs ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: miscellaneous | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Currently haskellmode builds an index of functions based on the docs installed on a system. This means a user has to install all docs for all packages. HackageDB builds docs for all modules on the site, so it seems silly that I need to install the docs myself. It would be cool, and probably useful for IDEs if a file was available from HackageDB that contained enough information to build that index, and point to docs on HackageDB. Then people with limited disk space, who are on always-online machines, can enjoy easy function lookup. Even cooler would be if there was a web API (e.g. XML-RPC server) available that could be used to do the function lookups. For instance passing a function name would return a list of pairs of module name and URL. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/548 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects