Can't view doc

[wd]

I'm using dash 3.3.0 on Mac, and downloaded Lua_5.3 doc in dash. After call helm-dash in emacs, and input "string.", it will show a list include the keyword, but if I press C-j to try to view, will get this error:

url-file: File does not exist: file:///Users/wd/Library/Application%20Support/Dash/DocSets/Lua_5.3/Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#//apple_ref/func/string%2Echar

My emacs settings

 (setq helm-dash-browser-func 'eww)

And files under "Resources" directory, there is "Documents" subdirectory here.

wd @ ~/Library/Application Support/Dash/DocSets/Lua_5.3/Lua.docset/Contents/Resources ❯❯❯ ls -alh
total 1296
drwxr-xr-x  2 wd  staff   238B Jul 15 17:09 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 wd  staff   136B Jul 15 17:09 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 wd  staff   384K Jul 17 09:06 docSet.dsidx
-rw-r--r--  1 wd  staff    32K Jul 17 09:56 docSet.dsidx-shm
-rw-r--r--  1 wd  staff     0B Jul 17 09:06 docSet.dsidx-wal
-rw-r--r--  1 wd  staff   212K Jul 15 17:09 tarix.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 wd  staff    20K Jun 24 00:07 tarixIndex.db

[kidd]

In the 'Resources' directory there should be a 'Documents' directory with the actual contents of the docs. If you installed the docset with the official dash, I'd say try to search where the docs are and they patch the paths somehow. I don't have a mac, so I can't try it :/

You can try to run helm-dash-install-docset and install Lua 5.3 and see if the 'documents' directory is there.

[wd]

I've tried run helm-dash-install-docset to install Lua docs, it worked, there is a 'documents' directory.

I found there is a tarix.tgz in the resource directory in docsets installed from the official app, it seems the doc files are there.

 tar ztvf tarix.tgz
drwxr-xr-x  0 bogdan staff       0 Jun 24 00:07 Lua.docset/
drwxr-xr-x  0 bogdan staff       0 Jun 24 00:05 Lua.docset/Contents/
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff     402 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Info.plist
drwxr-xr-x  0 bogdan staff       0 Jun 24 00:07 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff  339968 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/docSet.dsidx
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff   32768 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/docSet.dsidx-shm
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff  181312 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/docSet.dsidx-wal
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff   14574 Feb 12 05:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/docSet.mom
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff     112 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/docSet.toc
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff   68838 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/docSet.tokencache
drwxr-xr-x  0 bogdan staff       0 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff    4243 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/backblue.gif
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff     828 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/fade.gif
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff    5241 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/index.html
drwxr-xr-x  0 bogdan staff       0 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/
drwxr-xr-x  0 bogdan staff       0 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/images/
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff    4232 Oct 23  2001 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/images/logo.gif
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff     214 Feb 13  2011 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/images/search.png
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff    2432 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/lua.css
drwxr-xr-x  0 bogdan staff       0 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/
drwxr-xr-x  0 bogdan staff       0 Jun 24 00:07 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/5.3/
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff   30248 Jun  7 19:09 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/5.3/contents.html
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff   30222 Jun  7 19:09 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/5.3/index.html
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff  353929 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff   37998 Jun 24 00:07 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html.dashtoc
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff     320 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/index.css
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff     336 Jun 24 00:04 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/www.lua.org/manual/manual.css
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff     259 Jun 24 00:07 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff     174 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Nodes.xml
-rw-r--r--  0 bogdan staff   88921 Jun 24 00:06 Lua.docset/Contents/Resources/Tokens.xml

[BobCromwell]

It's better Dash and helm-dash can share installed docset.