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I've been using Dash for more than a year now. I love it. It is great for quickly looking up things, and best of all it works for multiple languages. I regularly write code in Clojure, Perl, Java and C, I also use Redis and PostgreSQL, and Dash helps with all of that.

My only wish is that someday I could get Intel's x86 manuals and ARM Cortex M0 and M4 instruction set documentation in Dash.

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My experience is at the opposite end of the spectrum. I installed it roughly one year ago, played with it and admired its functionality, then never used it since. It might be just that I'm way too connected to my Chrome tabs.

You just need to get used to incorporating Dash into your workflow. If it helps convincing you, Dash also has tabs and uses the same shortcuts as Chrome.

Building a package is very easy, it's more a question of how parsable / structured your documentation is. I don't know how those manuals are distributed, but if you have an HTML version, it should be doable.

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