zeal noun
- a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
- excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end
- prompt willingness
(from WordNet 3.0)
Zeal is a simple offline documentation browser inspired by Dash.
For details about binary packages (currently available for Windows and Ubuntu) see downloads page. Also, the latest unstable builds are available here.
After installing Zeal, you need to download docsets. Go to File->Options->Docsets, select the ones you want, and click the Download button.
If you prefer to compile Zeal manually.
- Qt 5.2+
libappindicator
andlibappindicator-devel
for notifications- you may need to install
libqt5webkit5-dev
andqtbase5-private-dev
To compile it, run qmake
and make
. On Linux, a final make install
is required to install icons.
You can limit the search scope by using ':' to indicate the desired docsets.
java:BaseDAO
You can also search multiple docsets separating them with a comma:
python,django:string
If you prefer, you can start with Zeal queries from command line, for this, use the option --query
:
zeal --query python:bomb
You can use Dash's instructions for generating docsets.