Dash layer

This layer integrates offline API browsers into Emacs. It provides one for macOS, Linux and Windows.

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add dash to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

By default, the dash layer will initialize all installed docsets to be active in all buffers. To disable this and opt-in to specific docsets for specific buffers, set:

(dash :variables
      dash-autoload-common-docsets nil)

To change the location of the installed docsets, set:

(dash :variables
      helm-dash-docset-newpath "~/.docsets")

dash-at-point and zeal-at-point will search for the word at point in the respective offline API browser. The result will be displayed in the offline browser's UI.

However having to leave emacs to have a look at the search results may be a bit awkward. To help with this it is also possible to integrate the search results directly in helm, ivy or consult and show the details in a browser. To do so helm-dash can be used for helm, counsel-dash for ivy and consult-dash for consult.

To get them working it is necessary to set dash-docs-docset-newpath to the location of your docsets.

(dash :variables
      dash-docs-docset-newpath "~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets")

For more details please check dash-at-point-usage or zeal-at-point.