Should the help/1 display the pldoc-help to command prompt???!

[Pasi Xyy]

Hello forum!

I would like to have the help/1 to print pldoc-documentation about a predicate to a command prompt. Is this possible now? 

I am thinking from a end-users perspective who is using a command line application, he would get a few lines of help to a command prompt

Thanks.

[Samer Abdallah]

Hi,

If you have a terminal web browser such as links installed, you 

can, as of the last couple of versions, set the ‘browser’ flag in

your ~/.swiplrc as follows:

:- create_prolog_flag(browser, links-fg, []).

This will bring up links in the terminal when you ask for help.

When you quit links, you will drop back into SWI Prolog.

With a bit more tweaking, you might be able to get it to just

dump the formatted HTML and return to Prolog immediately.

cheers,

Samer

On 11 Oct 2017, at 17:04, Pasi Xyy <pasi...@dnainternet.net> wrote:

Hello forum!

I would like to have the help/1 to print pldoc-documentation about a predicate to a command prompt. Is this possible now?

Thanks.

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