vim-ada VS zeal

In terms of bootstrapping your environment and getting started, I'd recommend looking at Vim-Ada and Awesome Ada. I also tried to write up some practical advice from my experience, which might be helpful.

Vim-Ada has links to a built user-contributed docset to use.

There's also instructions about how to install a Zeal docset for Ada in the vim-ada instructions.

This version brings a couple (literally) new plugins (EasyMotion, QuickUI), one removed (Vim-Header) and one theme replaced (Gruvbox with Gruvbox8). For more detailed information about the changes, please look at the release page: https://github.com/thindil/vim-ada/releases/tag/v12.0

Due to often work with multi-language projects I use NeoVim with many plugins. I even created the project to easily configure Vim/NeoVim on GitHub. Generally, I looked at GPS and VS Code and put into Vim all these parts which I liked: like support for Ada Language Server, Zeal etc.

You could look at Programming Fonts page, probably the best place to try to find any good font for you. Personally, I use FiraCode mostly due to ligatures. You can look here to see how the Ada code looks with FiraCode.

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/