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 (version 5.2.0 or above is required)
- libarchive
- Optionally libappindicator for Unity users
To compile it, run qmake and make.
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 Zeal with a query from command line:
zeal python:bomb
You can use Dash's instructions for generating docsets.