![]() All this is done without even noticing AutoKey or navigating to its UI.Ĭompared to Dash for Mac, AutoKey provides a few more options to control the automatic text expansion. When a trigger text is entered, AutoKey will replace the text with the expanded version of the text. ![]() ![]() Except for when you want to add new text expansion patterns, the AutoKey’s UI is mostly hidden. The UI is not as nicely polished as the Dash UI, but the functionality is very similar. AutoKey can be installed directly from the default repositories in Ubuntu based systems. Zeal does not provide this kind of functionality.ĪutoKey is a text expander that provides similar functionality to Dash’s text expansion. The auto-type functionality is usually triggered by typing a trigger word. As well as offline documentation, Dash provides an auto-type functionality. There are some features of Dash that Zeal does not cover. If you are familiar with Dash already, you will see little difference in using Zeal. The different docsets can be searched and navigated conveniently. With Zeal installed, docsets can be installed and used in a similar way as in Dash. To install Zeal on an Ubuntu based system, I would suggest following the approach to use the PPA repository as it seems to be more up-to-date with the latest Zeal versions.Ī list of supported Linux distributions and the related commands to install Zeal can be found on the developer’s homepage. Zeal is available for Windows as well as for different Linux distributions. Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers providing very similar functionality to Dash for MacOS. ![]() The alternative program for Linux uses the same format for the documentation, allowing you to use the growing selection of documentation that already exists for Dash. Zeal – offline documentation browserĭash being a MacOS only Application uses a documentation format called “docset”. The handy utility Dash – Offline access to documentation is sadly only available for MacOS, but there are compatible alternatives available to let you browse documentation offline on Linux.
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