# Easy way to reach online documentation?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-reach-online-documentation/83462>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** documentation\
**Created:** [June 28, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-reach-online-documentation/83462 "2022-06-28T14:23:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-reach-online-documentation/83462/1 "2022-06-28T14:23:23Z")

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This is one of those “what am I missing?” posts.

The function-based documentation of packages using ? at the REPL is, shall we say, inconsistently helpful. Most decent packages do have web documentation that ranges from good to indispensable. Very few, however, include direct links to it within the terminal-printed doc strings.

I find that I am constantly Cmd-Tabbing to the browser, hitting Cmd-L, and then typing until I match the bookmark I have made to the documentation home (possibly requiring some down-arrows to reach). This morning I finally conceded that this is the kind of annoying, repetitive task that I should automate.

It’s not hard to imagine doing so. I might be happy with the equivalent of (in a Mac-centric form):

```julia
module_pages = Dict( 
    :Pkg => "https://pkgdocs.julialang.org/",
    :Plots => "https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/",
    :DataFrames => "https://dataframes.juliadata.org/stable/",
 )

help(s::Symbol) = run(`open $(module_pages[s])`)
help(m::Module) = help(Symbol(m))

```

Then `help(:Pkg)` gets me where I want to be. There are ways to tart that up, of course. But I wonder if other users have a simple process already that I’ve overlooked. Have I just been trapped at the wrong local minimum?

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