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I find the Wolfram Workbench a nice environment for Mathematica development.

However, as I program in Mathematica, I need to navigate the Help System very often.

The Workbench provides a tooltip tool that shows a very basic help for the Mma functions (just the usage messages), and is not enough for my usual needs.

So: Is there a way to bring up and navigate the whole Mma Help System from inside the Workbench?

Alternative solutions are also welcome. Re-entering the function name in a notebook and pressing F1 is not :)

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  • Is this on topic? Doesn't seem very much programming related. More like needing help with an application. Commented Jan 15, 2011 at 17:24
  • @IAbstract Programming environments are on-topic AFAIK. The Workbench is in fact an Eclipse incarnation. Commented Jan 15, 2011 at 17:29
  • @IAbstract Like this stackoverflow.com/questions/2797806/… :) Commented Jan 15, 2011 at 17:40
  • That was CW - and I remember adding to the post. That same question might not be allowed on SO today but has been kept as a very useful archive, in my opinion. But that is why we have the community to make decisions. Commented Jan 15, 2011 at 17:52
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    I think it's a valid question for mathematica tag until the separate stackexchange takes off (area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/15787/mathematica) Commented Jan 15, 2011 at 20:24

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Found an answer here

By highlighting the function and pressing Ctrl+Shift+/ a Web Browser pops up and shows the appropriate Wolfram's help page on the Internet.

The question is still alive, as it should be better to show up the local Help System.

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I'm accepting my answer temporarily, until someone comes up with a way to use the local help files. Tip Window->Preferences->Mathematica->Editor->Help ... and something should be patched there.
So did you come up with a solution? I am finding myself using Eclipse more and more as I switch between Python and mma constantly, and looking up the docs easily would be useful.
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I've just been re-installing Workbench 2.0 on Mint Mfce 17.1 and have run into this problem.

Do you have a browser set for viewing help?

Wolfram Workbench, menu:Windows|Preferences, tree:General|Web Browser

I've got mine set to the output of "which firefox". Sadly, I cannot get this mechanism to honor -new-window as an option (nor -no-remote), so the contents from 127.0.0.1 always show up in some other already open Firefox window. Meh. Note that you need not list the %URL% as a parameter (unless one of the parameters you give also requires it); it will be appended to whatever you supply.

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