Download manual with php function reference from
http://us.php.net/get/php_manual_en.chm/from/a/mirror
and save to
C:\Program Files\jEdit\macros\php_manual_en.chm

Then create a macro "C:\Program Files\jEdit\macros\Open_in_PHP_Manual.bsh":

CHM_location = "C:\\Program Files\\jEdit\\macros\\php_manual_en.chm";
if (textArea.getSelection().length > 0) {
CHM_location += "::/en/function."+textArea.getSelectedText()+".html";
}
exec("HH " + CHM_location);

Hi,
do You know a way to retrieve the right location in other CHM files? I'd really like to use some CHM files for getting help from within jedit (resp. from command line).

Robert

Ya, open the chm file, "C:\Program Files\jEdit\macros\php_manual_en.chm" in the example above.

Then open any function reference page from the Index tab, for example stripslashes(). Right click in the window on the right and select Properties. In the new window you'll see Address: (URL) something like
"mk:@MSITStore:C:\Program%20Files\jEdit\macros\php_manual_en.chm::/en/function.stripslashes.html"

The last part of the URL is where the function gets inserted (between function. and .html).

CHM_location += "::/en/function."+textArea.getSelectedText()+".html";

Very nice, thanks!

But of course now comes the next problem: One of the chm files I'm interested in is the Windows Scripting Doc. And the interesting URL's follow different rules (i.e "vsfctyyyy", "vsmthyyyy" and so on), so You can only show one type of key words.

So I wonder if there were a special URL to do some sort of searching. The command line of hh.exe seems not to support a search.

Another thought is: UltraEdit (which is a native Windows program) does an index search for the desired word in the CHM file. I guess UltraEdit uses the HTMLHelp API. Cold this be done from within jEdit too (via any library jar an a macro)?

Robert