One advantage I've come to appreciate about Dash/Zeal docsets: it's really nice having focused search.
The text search is constrained to the languages I care about enough to download the docset, substantially increasing the relevance. In Google I'd need to specify the language.
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I'm playing with Zeal/Dash so I can view stdlib docs offline.
(I've been coding on public transport recently, without a reliable data connection.)
Anyone have tips for making the most of this setup? AFAICT docsets are basically HTML underneath.
I've heard of 'blub languages', where you don't realise that other languages have better abstractions until you've experienced them.
I think the same thing happens with individual features. I've seen several C++ folks miss variadic generics in Rust, but I've not written enough C++ to feel it.
I like that most LLM UIs show your previous queries prominently.
When figuring out where LLMs are useful in your workflow, it's nice to see what worked well (or not) in the past.
Web search doesn't have this property. I rarely look at what I've previously googled.