# Ri-emacs on github

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ri-emacs-on-github/176636>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 3, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ri-emacs-on-github/176636 "2009-10-03T18:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![pedz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@pedz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pedz)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ri-emacs-on-github/176636/1 "2009-10-03T18:06:00Z")

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ri-emacs has been around for a while. It hooks up Ruby’s “ri” command  
to emacs so you can get the output into an emacs buffers. I’ve debugged  
it for myself over the years. It seems to break easily. Right now, I  
have it working for Ruby 1.9.1 on emacs 23.1 on Mac OS X.

It is on github here: [GitHub - pedz/ri-emacs: Ruby ri help inside emacs](http://github.com/pedz/ri-emacs)

The one feature I’ve added are click-able “links” or “hot spots” in the  
output. For example, if you get the ri page for the String class, each  
method will be click-able. Clicking on “to\_i” for example will do an  
“ri” for String#to\_i

Enjoy  
pedz