[Idea]: `neva doc` command for quickly looking through stdlib

[Catya3]

As a prototype I can expect something that loads stdlib into an index and allows searching for keywords like grep, while displaying a few lines of context. The inverted index can be stored somewhere under $HOME/Neva directory.

[emil14]

Actually compiler embeds stdlib source code so that could help, but that's just bytes

One way to implement this could be compile stdlib on the fly and then query it as an object, it's not hard do to

However, other issue is that after parsing we don't have comments in the source code objects.

Another way is not to parse it at all and instead just implement some text search. However that won't be as good as Go's go doc cmd where you can actually query stuff by package and entity.

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And the most important question - how frequently are you using this feature in other languages? I personally never use it :D I always go to docs or some third-party web-sites including google and chatGPT

[Catya3]

This is my dev workflow right now:

$ grep -rE Range $HOME/neva/std
/home/$USER/neva/std/builtin/core.neva:pub component Range(from int, to int) (data stream<int>)

[Catya3]

I could at least wrap up grep so that you can add a package name with path/to/package . Symbol which would get translated to:

grep -rE Symbol $HOME/neva/std/path/to/package

[dorian3343]

We could build this first and use it to build the autogenerated docs? We could do it like this

and then have neva doc at least until we can finish a auto generated documentation