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Re: View man pages in Xcode script

Nico — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:11:46 -0000

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/...

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).

Re: View man pages in Xcode script

schwa — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:44:22 -0000

Nico, if that works then very nice.

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

Re: View man pages in Xcode script

Nico — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:24:16 -0000

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).

Re: View man pages in Xcode script

hollywood — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:25:56 -0000

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

Re: View man pages in Xcode script

Justin Miller — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:23:14 -0000

Great script -- thanks for that!

Re: View man pages in Xcode script

schwa — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:24:53 -0000

I like it. Dueling man page hacks.

Re: View man pages in Xcode script

Tom Harrington — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:03:08 -0000

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/b... to see how it works.