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Tom Harrington · 2 years ago

Thanks, that's pretty cool. I like the way Xcode's viewer inserts hyperlinks to cross-referenced man pages.

I have a script I've used for a while that uses PDF rendering of pages-- see http://www.atomicbird.com/blog/2007/07/man-page... to see how it works.

schwa · 2 years ago

I like it. Dueling man page hacks.

Justin Miller · 2 years ago

Great script -- thanks for that!

hollywood · 2 years ago

I like the way Xcode’s viewer inserts hyperlinks to cross-referenced man pages.

Nico · 2 years ago

osascript -e ''tell application "XCode" to show document with apple_ref "//apple_ref/doc/man/1/'$1

should work as well and doesn't require gui scripting. Use "//apple_ref/doc/c_ref/" to show documentation for C code (e.g. Carbon functions and constants; cocoa class names work too).

schwa · 2 years ago

Nico, if that works then very nice.

But you've just killed my blog post! ;-)

Nico · 1 year ago

Turns out that what I wrote doesn't work with Leopard (it did work with Tiger, though). But the apple_ref scheme is actually documented: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Develo...

So to open the "interesting" man page (1) (that's what your script does as well) you can use

tell application "Xcode" to show document with apple_ref "//apple_ref/c/func/strlen"

to open the man page for strlen. And

tell application "Xcode" to show document with apple_ref "//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSArray/initWithArray:copyItems:"

to show the documentation for -[NSArray initWithArray:copyItems:]. And so on. Semi-useful if you want to use a better editor than xed for code editing, but still look at XCode documentation from there (only semi-useful because you have to guess the top-level link like occ, c etc first before sending the applescript command to xcode).