<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Here are some examples:<br>
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0eleru83ya6oscg/Screenshot%202016-09-28%2011.29.10.png?dl=0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/<wbr>0eleru83ya6oscg/Screenshot%<wbr>202016-09-28%2011.29.10.png?<wbr>dl=0</a><br>
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/x8hg3qyfje0jpmc/Screenshot%202016-09-28%2011.29.53.png?dl=0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/<wbr>x8hg3qyfje0jpmc/Screenshot%<wbr>202016-09-28%2011.29.53.png?<wbr>dl=0</a><br>
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c15as0cvu46gy0/Screenshot%202016-09-28%2011.31.27.png?dl=0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/<wbr>8c15as0cvu46gy0/Screenshot%<wbr>202016-09-28%2011.31.27.png?<wbr>dl=0</a><br>
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0xrqtuhjblixnjb/Screenshot%202016-09-28%2011.32.33.png?dl=0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/<wbr>0xrqtuhjblixnjb/Screenshot%<wbr>202016-09-28%2011.32.33.png?<wbr>dl=0</a> <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Also worth pointing out that the colors and style used by the inline documentation can be customized by creating a file named ~/.iex.exs. You don't need to stick with the colors and formats in the screenshots above. This is documented in the IEx module itself. Since colors have been a concern throughout this discussion, I thought I would mention it upfront.</div><div><br></div><div>Another advantage of the approach above is that you get the shell autocomplete when looking for help. For example, you can type "h String.", hit tab, and it will list all String functions so you find the proper one you want help on.</div><div><br></div><div>One big disadvantage of the shell one is that we don't have the page scrolling commands you get with man pages. However, this is a solvable problem, and could be solved by adding document reading features to Erlang's shell. I did a prototype at some point but never made it into a pull request.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>