[SVN] bundle size

[Steven Ross]

The one advantage is that the livedocs are so horribly slow its nice to have
the docs local to your box. My current setup is nice, any tag or method that
is in CF and one keystroke gets you to the help doc for that entry....
hmm...

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Daniel Stockman <daniel.stockman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, I'd say that's gargantuan. A better approach would be the one used by
> the PHP bundle, using tooltip hinting for basic argument usage, and popping
> up a browser window linking to the doc page when ^H is pressed.
>
> Having delved into the CF docs on many occasions, I can say that a lot of
> it is bloated, inaccurate, hard to navigate, and atrociously marked-up. Be
> that as it may, I don't think a TextMate bundle is the place to stash the
> entirety of the Developer's Guide, to say nothing of the quixotic API docs.
>
> In my copious (har) spare time, I've been fiddling with my locally-hacked
> CF bundle, now hosted on Github[1]. The absurd number of hard-to-use,
> verbosely-invoked snippets from the old grammar are gone, and I'm going to
> give a go at copying the PHP approach to documentation next. Feel free to
> fork/follow, if you want.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> [1]: http://github.com/evocateur/coldfusion-tmbundle/tree/master
>
>
> On May 20, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Steven Ross wrote:
>
>  I am pondering the idea of adding all of the help documentation to the
>> coldfusion bundle, unfortunately its 37mb of text files, is that "too
>> big"?
>> Should we provide a separate download for something like this? The only
>> downside to the separate download idea I can see is that users may have to
>> edit the bundle to tell it where they put the source files.
>> thoughts?
>>
>>
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