# Adding Julia itself to juliahub?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-julia-itself-to-juliahub/66582
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** documentation, help-database, juliahub
**Created:** [August 18, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-julia-itself-to-juliahub/66582 "2021-08-18T05:52:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Bardo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bardo/32/21601_2.png) [@Bardo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Bardo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-julia-itself-to-juliahub/66582/1 "2021-08-18T05:52:34Z")

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I (re-)discovered [juliahub](https://juliahub.com/ui/Search) to search also for help and code snippets.

But then I wondered why the biggest package (Julia itself) seems not be included.  
Could the owner [add](https://juliahub.com/ui/Registrator) it? - That would make a nice help interface.

The ? help is command-line based and hovering over a function in VS Code stays in the small window.  
Are there other means to browse/search all Julia help texts?

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### Author: ![Sukera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sukera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sukera)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-julia-itself-to-juliahub/66582/2 "2021-08-18T06:25:57Z")

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Julia itself is not a package - it’s “just” a compiler. Are you thinking about the packages from the standard library? They’re documented in the [manual](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/) (check the left hand side, under “Standard library”).

You can also use text search in the REPL via `?"text"`.

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### Author: ![Bardo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bardo/32/21601_2.png) [@Bardo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Bardo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 6:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-julia-itself-to-juliahub/66582/3 "2021-08-18T06:35:37Z")

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I meant the standard library, indeed.

The manual is searchable, true, just liked the juliahub search interface.

The REPL “” search looks like

```julia
help?> "write"
Base.SecretBuffer
Base.minimum!
Base.readchomp
Base.CompositeException
...

```

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### Author: ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-julia-itself-to-juliahub/66582/4 "2021-08-18T08:09:59Z")

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Not sure what you mean – Julia itself is definitely on JuliaHub:

- [Package page](https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/julia/THl1k/1.6.1)
- [Stdlib search](https://juliahub.com/ui/Search?q=crc32&type=docs)

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### Author: ![Bardo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bardo/32/21601_2.png) [@Bardo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Bardo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-julia-itself-to-juliahub/66582/5 "2021-08-18T08:15:43Z")

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Right, searching for “write” I had to scroll further down - helpful, thx!
