# Emacs equivalent of ri browser vim plugin?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 16, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emacs-equivalent-of-ri-browser-vim-plugin/72259 "2006-10-16T02:33:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![olbrich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/5f9b8f/32.png) [@olbrich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/olbrich)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emacs-equivalent-of-ri-browser-vim-plugin/72259/1 "2006-10-16T02:33:42Z")

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Is there a port of the ri plugin that is available for Vim for Emacs?  
For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about the plugin  
provides the class documentation for ruby in vim’s help document  
format.

You use it by typing

:Ri

and it displays the output in a split window like any other help query.

I personally prefer to use Emacs however and miss this feature since  
it saves me the trouble of having a terminal open as well as the  
editor. Any suggestions on how to get this sort of thing in Emacs  
would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![olbrich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/5f9b8f/32.png) [@olbrich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/olbrich)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emacs-equivalent-of-ri-browser-vim-plugin/72259/2 "2006-10-16T10:57:39Z")

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On Oct 15, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Kevin O. wrote:

> Is there a port of the ri plugin that is available for Vim for Emacs?  
> For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about the plugin  
> provides the class documentation for ruby in vim’s help document  
> format. […]

Generally I always have 1-4 shells (M-x shell RET)open IN emacs and  
one is almost always visible, so I’ll just use that. There is/was an  
emacs ri elisp wrapper written by David Black that I found somewhere  
(ri.el), but it has some problems with more recent versions of emacs  
that I have not yet bothered to figure out and fix. I don’t think it  
is supported anymore. If you’d like to try it out and can’t find it,  
let me know and I can send you my copy.

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**Author:** ![olbrich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/5f9b8f/32.png) [@olbrich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/olbrich)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emacs-equivalent-of-ri-browser-vim-plugin/72259/3 "2006-10-17T17:51:18Z")

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At Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:31:48 +0900, Kevin O. wrote:

> Is there a port of the ri plugin that is available for Vim for Emacs?  
> For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about the plugin  
> provides the class documentation for ruby in vim’s help document  
> format.

You’re probably looking for this:  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/ri-emacs/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ri-emacs/)

Not a port, but an independent project if I’m not mistaken.

HTH,  
Ruben