Is there some way to view the package documentation from the REPL? If I use the help mode I get the following for an example: julia> using TimeSeries [ Info: Precompiling TimeSeries [9e3dc215-6440-5c97-bce1-76c03772f85e] help?> TimeSeries search: TimeSeries AbstractTimeSeries No documentation…

[image] devel-chm: Is there some way to view the package documentation from the REPL? You can access docstrings with ? — while packages are encouraged to provide one for modules, they may not have got around to it. [image] devel-chm: Is there a way to generate a locally viewable copy of …

You can access docstrings with ? — while packages are encouraged to provide one for modules, they may not have got around to it. How does on document a module with docstrings? I found documentation for functions, methods, types,… but nothing for modules. I’ve been using juliahub to find the on…

Docstrings can be for modules too. It’s actually a really useful feature that more packages should have. Thanks to @tim.holy , VideoIO now has one with a few pointers. https://github.com/JuliaIO/VideoIO.jl/blob/fadad30fb24bd18bf78d22c3ce578af5806f1c96/src/VideoIO.jl#L162 i.e. ? VideoIO

100% agree. That looks like a very good example as well.

Every now and again we discuss having default docstrings for the main module of packages such that if they do not have explict docstrings thern the README.md is shown.

I saw this trick for including the REAMDE as a docstring in @tkf ’s packages: [image] Plea to package developers regarding documentation! Community I usually put a badge like this [GitHub commits since tagged version] in README with [![GitHub commits since tagged version]…

[image] oxinabox: Every now and again we discuss having default docstrings for the main module of packages such that if they do not have explict docstrings thern the README.md is shown. I PR’ed the basic idea https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/39093

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Tamas_Papp December 7, 2020, 8:09am 7

I saw this trick for including the REAMDE as a docstring in @tkf’s packages:

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