Do you often visit a URL for code-function references?

ATS16805

If you're like me, you've learned everything you know about programming or designing web sites from on-line resources (and maybe a few books or CHM & PDF's here and there). This isn't any new news, but there are a lot of really nice resources out there, created by developers to help us to quickly reference those on-line resources that we so often use.

The only one about which I can make a testimonial is Rijk's Panelizer, and I must say that it's a very nice little ditty. Use the "Panelizer" to "install" LOCAL versions of CSS, HTML, JavaScript, DOM tools, etc (you should ensure that you first have a "Panels" bookmark folder/ option), and they open in Firefox's side panel (they were originally designed for Opera, so it works there too of course).

i hope someone can make use of this.
enjoy!

http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/

by the way, i got this from Eric Meyer
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/references/

ATS16805

i see this is some old news, so lemme bring you up to date on a few others i've found since my original post on this topic:
http://people.opera.com/rijk/panels/panelizer.html (a direct link to the 'almost-famous' panelizer)

put the PHP Manual in your sidebar-- i LOVE THIS ONE
http://webtoman.com/opera/panels.php

if you're a new-to-linux user, you might also like the BASH reference he's got here:
http://webtoman.com/opera/panel/commandline_bash.php
(note the directory-- ../panel/ vs the above... not sure why he doesn't have the BASH link in his html presentation, as he does the XP CLI stuff)

a very nice collection is right here at Opera's home:
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/panel/

and finally, most of those Opera sidebars will work w/ Seamonkey-- all you need is the addons.mozilla.org -- XPI -- it's called "xsidebar "

enjoy ford!
🙂

thorpe

Even easier. If you use vim to program (as do I), put this in your .vimrc file.

set keywordprg=~/bin/phpman

Now, create a bash script in ~/bin/phpman

#!/bin/bash

links http://php.net/$1

Now, from within vim whenever you need to read up on a function just hold the cursor over it, go into command mode and hit <Shift>k.

No need to ever leave the comfort of vim.

ATS16805

hey thorpe, that's very awesome stuff to know!! thank you!
now, if i can just figure out how to use it!... ha! (vim, that is)
seriously-- if i do ]$ view documentname that puts me in vim, right? certainly i don't expect you to give me a lesson on VIM here, but-- what are some of the basic commands so i might play w/ it a bit? [maybe PM that please in case anyone wanted to keep this thread on the subject of... code-function ref's] i'm sooo lost on it that i actually have to close terminal w/ the window-manager click because, although i was expecting it to behave like man pages, or info-- typing 'q' doesn't get me back to the command line...i've tried at random probably just abotu every other key as well-- i don't seem to be able to do much more than move the cursor and mess up important docs. ... ooops! 🙁

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