Dash (Docs & Snippets) 1.9.3
Device: Mac OS
Category: Developer Tools
Price: Free, Version: 1.9.2 -> 1.9.3 (iTunes)
Description:••• Dash is free to download and try out. However, you can purchase Dash using an In-App Purchase •••
Instant search and offline access to any API documentation you may need.
Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash helps you store snippets of code, as well as instantly search and browse documentation for almost any API you might use (for a full list, see below).
Documentation Browser Features:
• Offline Documentation: iOS, OS X, Man Pages, .NET Framework, ActionScript, Akka, Android, Angular.js, Ansible, Appcelerator Titanium, Arduino, Backbone.js, Bash, Boost, Bootstrap, Bourbon, C, C++, CakePHP, Cappuccino, Chai, Chef, Clojure, Cocos2D, Cocos2D-X, Cocos3D, CodeIgniter, CoffeeScript, ColdFusion, Common Lisp, Compass, Cordova, Corona, CSS, Django, Dojo Toolkit, Drupal, D3.js, Elixir, Emacs Lisp, Ember.js, Emmet.io, Erlang, Express.js, ExpressionEngine, ExtJS, Flask, Foundation (by Zurb), Git, GLib, Grails, Go, Groovy, Haml, Haskell, HTML, Jade, Java, JavaFX, JavaScript, Joomla, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, jQuery UI, Knockout.js, Kobold2D, Laravel, LaTeX, Less, Lua, Lo-Dash, Marionette.js, Meteor, MongoDB, Mono, MooTools, MySQL, Nginx, Node.js, Ocaml, OpenCV, OpenGL, Perl, PhoneGap, PHP, Play, PostgreSQL, Processing, Prototype.js, Puppet, Python, Qt, R, Redis, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sass, Scala, Sencha Touch, Smarty, Sparrow, Spring Framework, SproutCore, SQLite, Stylus, SVG, Symfony, Tcl/Tk, Twig, Twisted, TYPO3, Underscore.js, Unity 3D, Vagrant, Vim, VMware vSphere, WordPress, Xamarin, Xojo, XSLT, XUL, Yii, YUI, Zend Framework, Zepto.js.
• Supports docsets generated using popular tools like Appledoc and Doxygen.
• Methods are conveniently shown in a special Table of Contents.
• Highlighted in-page search.
• Save bookmarks of your most used documentation pages.
• Create search profiles to easily switch between docsets.
• Easily search specific docsets by defining keyword filters (e.g. start your query with "python:" to search only the Python documentation).
• Integration plugins for: Xcode, Alfred, Quicksilver, LaunchBar, PopClip, Sublime Text, Emacs, Vim, TextMate, Eclipse, AppCode, Android Studio, IntelliJ Idea, RubyMine, WebStorm, PhpStorm, PyCharm, Terminal, AppleScript.
• Easily integrate with any other application using the "dash://" URL scheme or the "Look up in Dash" system service.
• Fuzzy search. Don't let misspells get in your way.
• Built for speed. Searching is almost instant.
Snippet Manager Features:
• Collect snippets of code that you reuse often.
• Sync by saving your library in Dropbox.
• Over 80 syntaxes for code highlighting.
• Variable Placeholders can be edited before pasting.
• Abbreviations are expanded wherever you type them.
Special Snippet Placeholders:
• @clipboard expands into the contents of the clipboard.
• @cursor repositions the cursor after expansion.
• @date expands into the current date.
• @time expands into the current time.
Other Features:
• Retina-ready.
• Multi-Touch Gestures.
• Menu item or dock application, always one keyboard shortcut away.
• Users that want to use Dash only as a Snippet Manager or Documentation Browser, can do so.
In-App Purchases
• Dash will nag and annoy you every now and then, in order to purchase.
What's New
• Added IntelliJ IDEA, RubyMine, Android Studio, WebStorm, PhpStorm and PyCharm as integration options in Preferences > Integration
• Added .NET Framework docset
• Added Ansible docset
• Added Bash docset
• Added Chai docset
• Added Chef docset
• Added ColdFusion docset
• Added Cordova docset
• Added Emmet.io docset. Thanks to zfkun
• Added ExpressionEngine docset
• Added Haml docset
• Added Jade docset
• Added Java EE 6 & 7 docsets
• Added LaTeX docset
• Added MooTools docset. Thanks to Matti Schneider
• Added Nginx docset
• Added OCaml docset. Thanks to Zhang Lei
• Added OpenCV docset
• Added OpenGL 3 docset
• Added Smarty docset. Thanks to Miguel Sánchez Villafán
• Added Spring Framework docset
• Added Stylus docset
• Added Twig docset
• Added Vagrant docset
• Added Zend Framework 1 docset
• Added Zepto.js docset
• Improved fuzzy search
• Fuzzy search now uses the unified search index, for a slight speed boost
• Activating a docset keyword by typing it (e.g. "ruby:") will now also show the relevant docsets in the docset browser
• Responsive scroll support (except the WebView, because Apple doesn't support it)
• PHP Docset: functions now have the same sort rank as classes (i.e. it's a lot easier to find functions now)
• Show a warning in Preferences > Docsets when a custom search profile is enabled
• Fixed a Ruby Gems docset issue
• Fixed an issue which caused the iOS docset to not show an index page
• Fixed a bug which didn't allow the main window to be dragged across spaces
• (Hopefully) Fixed a bug which caused the "Search using selected text" key shortcut to still not work
If you like Dash, please rate it on the Mac App Store or tweet about it. Thank you!
Dash (Docs & Snippets)