Still no candidates provided

[flexibeast]

Further to Issue 41, i've just uninstalled the helm-dash (MELPA) package via the package manager, cloned the master branch, and loaded helm-dash from that; but it's still not providing any candidates for either of the two docsets i've installed ('HTML' and 'CSS').

[areina]

Hi @flexibeast , could you provide an example of your helm-dash configuration? thanks

[flexibeast]

Sure. What info would you like? i've not made any customisations to what's provided "out of the box". Basically, after my first installation of helm-dash from MELPA, i:

• ran helm-dash-install-docset twice, once for the 'HTML' docset, and once for the 'CSS' docset, both of which appear to have been installed into my ~/.docsets/ directory;
• ran helm-dash-activate-docset for both docsets, such that the value of helm-dash-common-docsets was reported to be ("HTML" "CSS");
• ran helm-dash and tried supplying e.g. "abbr" or "width" as the pattern - no candidates at all were produced.

After uninstalling the MELPA version and installing the master branch version, i:

• did a (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/helm-dash"), followed by a (require 'helm-dash); the latter returned 'helm-dash' in the minibuffer as its result.
• ran helm-dash-activate-docset for both docsets, again confirming that the value of helm-dash-common-docsets was ("HTML" "CSS");
• again, ran helm-dash with 'abbr' and 'width' - again, no candidates were produced.

[flexibeast]

Sorry, i should have added, the value of helm-dash-docsets-path is indeed "~/.docsets".

[kidd]

@flexibeast , I can't reproduce it.

with both docsets active, can you try to type 'css ' and see if all the css results are produced? If not, it's probably some messing up with the paths.

[flexibeast]

Doing that, i don't get any CSS results; only "CSS nil".

[flexibeast]

Okay, i found the problem: the Debian sqlite3 package wasn't installed. As soon as i installed that, helm-dash started working. :-) Perhaps add a check for the presence of an sqlite3 binary?

[kidd]

great that you made itt work!

i'll think about the sqlite check, or at least, make it clearer in the readme.

[TeMPOraL]

Please mention (in the Readme) that it requires sqlite3. I initially installed sqlite package, and the mode was not working.

[kidd]

oh, oks. doing it now.

Thanks!