qzivli / chez-help

"Online help" for Chez Scheme

chez-help

A fake "online help" for Chez Scheme.

It will search symbol name in The Scheme Programming Language (Fourth Edition) and Chez Scheme Version 9 User's Guide, if found, it will open a web page through the default web browser.

It currently only tested on macOS.

Examples

(import (help))

(help 'syntax-case)

(help 'make-engine)

> (import (help))
> (apropos 'thread)
interaction environment:
  fork-thread, get-thread-id, make-thread-parameter, thread-condition?,
  thread?, threaded?
...
> (help 'fork-thread)

Dependencies

• match https://github.com/qzivli/match

Install

Just type ./install.ss

The shell environment variable "CHEZSCHEMELIBDIRS" should be defined.