spacemacs/layers/+lang/python/local/pylookup/README.md
Maximilian Wolff 6d40ee8e10 Revert "python: replaced local package pylookup with the one on github"
This reverts commit 6e0f650101.
The reason for this is not that the dynamically build pylookup.py
is not found by emacs, this I have already solved locally by checking
the quelpa build directory.

However the issue is that the library is not compatible with python 3
the local version however is.

So this is effectively a fork and must be kept till python 3
compatibility for pylookup has been achieved.

Should fix #14544
2021-03-21 09:53:13 +00:00

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# Author
Taesoo Kim (taesoo@mit.edu)
Michael Markert (markert.michael@gmail.com)
Austin Bingham (austin.bingham@gmail.com)
Takafumi Arakaki <aka.tkf@gmail.com>
# README
Pylookup stole idea from 'http://furius.ca/haddoc', one of my favorite
emacs mode for python documentation lookup. I reimplemented python code and
elisp code not just to support new version of python 2.7 but also to extend
it for other documentation lookup interfaces with easy. Importantly, pylookup
mode is much faster and supports fancy highlighting.
Please check,
Web : http://taesoo.org/proj/pylookup.html
Repo : https://github.com/tsgates/pylookup
# INSTALL
## Create database
You can browse python documents from either online or offline. Since I prefer
offline, here is an easy step:
make download
It will download python document, and construct database for you. If you get in
any trouble, follow the below steps manually:
1. Download your own version of python document
(i.e. http://docs.python.org/archives/python-2.7.2-docs-html.zip)
2. Unzip: 'unzip python-2.7.2-docs-html.zip'
3. Index: './pylookup.py -u python-2.7.1-docs-html'
4. Test : './pylookup.py -l ljust'
(see updateing database section for more options)
## Elisp
Here is lisp part for emacs.
- [PATH] parameter depends on your environment (i.e. "~/.emacs.d/pylookup")
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.cl}
;; add pylookup to your loadpath, ex) ~/.emacs.d/pylookup
(setq pylookup-dir "[PATH]")
(add-to-list 'load-path pylookup-dir)
;; load pylookup when compile time
(eval-when-compile (require 'pylookup))
;; set executable file and db file
(setq pylookup-program (concat pylookup-dir "/pylookup.py"))
(setq pylookup-db-file (concat pylookup-dir "/pylookup.db"))
;; set search option if you want
;; (setq pylookup-search-options '("--insensitive" "0" "--desc" "0"))
;; to speedup, just load it on demand
(autoload 'pylookup-lookup "pylookup"
"Lookup SEARCH-TERM in the Python HTML indexes." t)
(autoload 'pylookup-update "pylookup"
"Run pylookup-update and create the database at `pylookup-db-file'." t)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# Updating Databases
You can easily accumulate many sources into single database. For example, you
can index python and scipy at the same time. Here are the examples:
- Single source
./pylookup.py -u http://docs.python.org
- Multiple sources, remote and local
./pylookup.py -u http://docs.python.org -u ~/doc/python2.7
- Adding local source to existing database (duplicate entries are not checked)
./pylookup.py -a -u ~/doc/python
- Example online documents of python, scipy, numpy, and matplotlib
(you can append new indexes into the current db with '-a' option)
./pylookup.py -u http://docs.python.org
./pylookup.py -u http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/genindex.html
./pylookup.py -u http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/genindex.html
./pylookup.py -u http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/genindex.html
You probably like to type './pylookup.py -h' to see more options.