wojtekmach
IExHelpOpen - opens documentation in a browser window
Hey everyone,
As you might know, Hex recently got a new option to open up documentation for a particular module in a browser window, e.g.: mix hex.docs open ecto --module Ecto.Changeset which I find very useful.
I thought it would be cool to have similar ability inside an iex session so I built: GitHub - wojtekmach/iex_help_open · GitHub.
Here’s a quick demo how this works:
It’s in a very early version and supports just functions, but if there’s interest in it I’d be happy to extend it to support more features. (It would likely require a rewrite from scratch 
.) Any feedback and/or contributions are very welcome in the meantime!
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gon782
Ah, goodness, this is great! These are the types of tools we really need. I had in mind to make a remote version of this at some point, because I wanted to use it across VM/machine boundaries, so I could spawn new tabs of docs on other machines or outside my VM. I might actually take a look at this to extend it into that. Thanks for rekindling this. 
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