PAX Live Documentation Browser
Tags: tech, lisp, Date: 2023-06-10
PAX got a live documentation browser to make documentation generation a more interactive experience. A great thing about Lisp development is changing a single function and quickly seeing how it behaves without the delay of a full recompile. Previously, editing a docstring required regenerating the full documentation to see how the changes turned out. The live documentation browser does away with this step, which tightens the edit/document loop.
PAX also got an apropos browser. It could always generate documentation for stuff not written with PAX in mind, so with the live browser already implemented, this was a just a small add-on.
The trouble with interactivity is, of course, that it's difficult to get the point across in text, so I made two short videos that demonstrate the basics.
