C++ help files

[laffis]

Hi

I am a C++ programmer used to working on Windows using Visual studio (dont shoot me...), which offers browser style help files, i.e. you can broswer a treelist of helps fully categorised and searchable, and you can easily nagivate among those stuff and digging out relevant articles.

Recently I've got to move to Unix. Last time I worked on Unix/Linus was 3 years ago, an age that I had to use man page to fish out references. I assume that time has long gone. Does anyone konw an IDE that offers the above browser type of help files? Or, is there any web page providing this searchable help files like msdn does?

 

[xwb]

Many moons ago (circa 1995) I used to use a facility called xman - basically an X windows manual page thing. There is a keyword facility (man -k from the command line) which will help you choose the relevant topics.

I don't know if that is still available in the updated modern versions of Unix/Linux.

Also, which version of Unix are you using? SunOS, HPUX, AIX, Linux to name but a few. Each one has its own IDE type environment and may have the specific help features you are looking for.

 

[xwb]

Forgot to mention

http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=45

It is a Visual Studio type interface for Linux but I don't know how good the help is.

 

[cpjust]

I just go on Google and search for "man pages". There's a lot of sites that offer web based man pages. I REALLY do wish someone would create an MSDN type of help for UNIX though...