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This is useful for me – hope it’s also useful for you, and I hope to add to it soon.

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    My first question is, what’s a launchctl? I think you’ve got some unstated requirements.

    I would totally use something like this, except I’m not sure to what extent it’s designed to download the docs for me vs install hooks into my startup files.

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      Ah, sorry, this is pretty much a Mac project at the moment, and Macs don’t support crontab. Might be fairly easy to branch based on the uname…

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        That’s cool. Just a shell script to download everything would be handy. That’s actually the hard part for me, finding the link I want. I think there’s a lot of value in a tool that knows where docs are and fetches them. For example, sometimes the OpenBSD pkg for a language includes the website docs and sometimes it doesn’t. I never know if or where they’ll be. I end up keeping six tabs open to various lua/luajit pages and hoping I don’t close one by accident. (there’s another feature request: the lua manual)

        I’m particularly interested in this because long ago I couldn’t find a good offline copy of the jquery docs, so I had to make my own. dated link: http://www.tedunangst.com/jquerydocs.html

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          Agreed!

          I pushed a commit that wraps the launchctl stuff in Mac-specific platform checks.

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      Nice. For those on Mac OSX, Dash is similar to this with more advanced features & automation, but not free.