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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

devhelp (1)

Name

devhelp - An API documentation browser

Synopsis

Please see following description for synopsis

Description

devhelp(1)                          devhelp                         devhelp(1)



NAME
       devhelp - An API documentation browser

SYNTAX
       devhelp [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
       Devhelp is an API documentation browser for GNOME.

OPTIONS
       -s, --search=KEYWORD
              Search for a keyword (function, symbol...).

       -a, --search-assistant=KEYWORD
              Search and display any hit in the assistant window.

EXAMPLES
       To run this program the standard way type:

       devhelp

       If you would like to search for a function, type:

       devhelp -s search-string

AUTHORS
       Devhelp  was written by Johan Dahlin <zilch.am@home.se>, Mikael Hallen-
       dal <micke@codefactory.se>, Richard Hult <rhult@codefactory.se>,  Fred-
       eric   Peters  <fpeters@0d.be>,  Aleksander  Morgado  <aleksander@alek-
       sander.es>, and Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <icq@gnome.org>.

       This manual page is Copyright (c) 2001  Johan Dahlin <zilch.am@home.se>
       and  Copyright(c)  2015   Frederic Peters <fpeters@0d.be>.  It has been
       written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and is distributed  under
       the  GNU  General Public License. As such, it may be used, modified and
       distributed by anyone else as long as this  copyright  notice  is  pre-
       served.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |    ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
       +---------------+-------------------------+
       |Availability   | developer/gnome/devhelp |
       +---------------+-------------------------+
       |Stability      | Pass-through volatile   |
       +---------------+-------------------------+

NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source         was         downloaded        from         https://down-
       load.gnome.org/sources/devhelp/41/devhelp-41.1.tar.xz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp.



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