Quick Docs Launcher

• Inspired by SublimeText2CfQuickDocsLauncher
• Provides a command for launching a quick search and launch docs base on current environment
• Quick search anything via input panel

Features

• Provides a command for launching a quick search and launch docs base on current environment
• Quick search anything via input panel

Installing

You can install it via Package Control or install manually as follow:

• cd {user sublime folder}/Packages
• git clone https://github.com/linkarys/QuickDocsLauncher

Usage

• Place the cursor around or select the tag/function to be searched/loaded
• Use shift + alt + h to load the doc page for specific tag/function directly
• Use shift + alt+ s to perform an search operation against specific word
• Use shift + alt + ; to open the input panel and use the following syntax to perform search

About Quick search

Use shift + alt + ; (or ctrl + shift + p on windows, cmd + shift + p on mac and select “Search via input panel” to open input panel

Syntax

search engine arg:value [arg:value ...] keyword

Example

search array by google:

search array on mdn with language zh-CN and topic javascript:

search array on python official docs within edition 2.7:

search array on stackoverflow within topic python:

search sublime packages on https://sublime.wbond.net/:

Some available abbr for search engine are:

• g or nothing for google
• py for python
• php for php
• st for stackoverflow
• jq for jquery
• mdn for mdn
• subl for sublime text
• wb for wbond
• cf for coldfusion
• git for github
• gist for gist
• dev for devdoc
• gt for google translate

Quick load and quick search action will detect your environment automatically and load or search the on the proper source. You Should pre-define the source via Preferences->Package Settings->Quick Docs Launcher-> Settings - User

Settings

Here is a demo

{
    // when perform and auick search command, if there isn't source specified already, use the following search engine by default
    "default_search_engine": "https://www.google.com/search?q=",

    // when perform an quick launch command, if there isn't source specified already, use the following site by default
    "default_site": "http://devdocs.io/#q=",

    /**
     * Define the urls that used by quick launch and quick search
     *
     * doc_url is used by quick launch
     * search_url is used by quick search
     * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     */

    "python": {
        "doc_url": "http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/",
        "search_url": "http://docs.python.org/3.4/search.html?check_keywords=yes&area=default&q=",
    },

    /**
     * Define the search pattern for quick panel search
     *
     * The format of the source pattern can be defined as:
     *  "prefix": {
     *      "pattern": "http://xxxxx/${keyname:defaultValue}/xxxx?q="
     *  }
     *
     *  Then when you type in the input panel (ctrl + shift + ; by default) with
     *      prefix keyname:val querystring
     *  It will launch a search at http://xxxxx/var/xxxx?q=querystring
     *  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     */

    "search_patterns": {
        "g": {
            "pattern": "https://www.google.com/search?hl=${l:en}&q="
        },
        "mdn": {
            "pattern": "https://developer.mozilla.org/${l:en-US}/search?topic=${t:}&q="
        },
        ...
    }
}

License

All of Sublime Text Quick Docs Launcher Plugin is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright © 2012 linkarys linkarys@gmail.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.