rust-search-extension VS zeal

Rust Search Extension adds a section on docs.rs menubar which lists the features of a crate in a nice and easy to access format.

How do I use it? https://rust.extension.sh/ says "You can press space after the keyword", but what's the keyword? Like, after installing it, what's the key(s) I have to press to use it in the address bar?

Rust search extension helps you quickly navigate documentation between multiple crates.

Firefox users, see https://github.com/huhu/rust-search-extension/issues/190, with the patch applied I gather this means we just need another release to stop being warned about the increase in permissions.

Here is the explanation https://github.com/huhu/rust-search-extension/issues/190

there's also an extension for browsers ("Rust Search Extension")

If you have the Rust search browser extension installed, you'll have a tab labeled "Features" on docs.rs

There's also Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/) which is basically the same as Dash but open source and runs on non-Mac devices.

For offline tech documentation you can use Zeal. Must have tool for poor internet connection places. Present in ubuntu repos. https://zealdocs.org/

ads don't have to proprietary

here's one example of ads in FOSS https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/779

There’s stuff like https://zealdocs.org/ that allow you to take all relevant documentation with you so offline coding will work.

If you just want to be productive, you could also bring a lot of books or downloaded tutorials on a drive.

Btw, make sure your drive is encrypted and you think of a way to backup your data so you don’t lose the offline progress.

I’d suggest you look into Kiwix¹ and also Zeal².

1. https://www.kiwix.org/

2. https://zealdocs.org/

For offline documentation, I use Zeal (called Dash on macos) which looks/works almost identically to rubydoc.info but much faster since it's offline, has a standard interface for all installed language documentations, and only 1 global hotkey away while programming.

I highly recommend using local solutions to this local issue: Zeal[1] (aka Dash[2] on MacOS)

Load up the "docsets" of your languages (lightly edited HTML docs for indexing purposes) and use a global keyboard shortcut (F8 for me) to pull up Python/Postgres/Terraform docs, searching for the right function without internet query.

This isn't straight up applicable to all questions of course, but "How do I search regular expressions in Python again?" is now as easy as "re"

Note that the docsets can be converted from normal HTML ones via doc2dash[3], especially useful to load up custom docs like private providers.

[1]: https://zealdocs.org/