Consider combining with/collaborating on similar plugin

[0xdevalias]

As per:

FYI, I somehow totally missed https://github.com/Vector35/community-plugins/issues/260 which you might also be interested in! Maybe it's worth combining the two plugins together?

Originally posted by @psifertex in https://github.com/Vector35/community-plugins/issues/267#issuecomment-2181153565

These 2 plugins seem pretty similar in goal/purpose:

• https://github.com/riskydissonance/binja-doc-lookup

  • Binary Ninja Plugin to show online documentation for the current token.
• https://github.com/matteyeux/binja-win-docs

  • Binary Ninja plugin to display the documentation of a Windows function in a sidebar widget.

I haven't looked too deeply at the specific implementation details of either yet, but I wonder if a collab/combination of the two could be of interest? Could allow improvement efforts to be focussed and create a 'one BN doc viewer/helper to rule them all' type situation.

See Also

• https://github.com/riskydissonance/binja-doc-lookup/issues/1

[matteyeux]

Hey!

This tooltip thing is a great idea. If you want to merge my code with your plugin in any way, I am happy to help and keep only one plugin in the binja plugin manager.

[0xdevalias]

While I haven't used either yet; the idea of a sidebar also seemed useful for docs at times as well. I'd have to spend a bunch of time using both to really figure what the best UX would be for what situations; but at least in theory, I can see times where there could be value in having the ability to use the popup version, and times where there could be value in the sidebar; so if they were to merge, keeping both forms of UI could be really cool.