Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:19:46AM +0800, Michael Yang <michael.yxf@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> OS's API is what I would need mainly.
>
> manpages are good, but it would be better if there is a well organized
> documents.
>
> For example, when I want to investigate some issues on regular expression,
> in Perl, I can use "perldoc -q reg", in Java, I can search the class name
> with the keyword, in Qt, I can check the classes related to regular
> expression within "assistant" doc.
>
> With manual pages, it seems that I have to know the exact name which exists
> in manuals, like "man std::iostream", to get the related manuals, but will
> not if the name is wrong.
For stuff in the standard C library, the Info documentation is nice
when you need more detail than the manpages provide. IME, the info
pages are also more reliable.
Daniel
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