[sc-users] scel / emacs-w3m missing documentation

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Hello, I am an Emacs user and am interested in using w3m to browse help files in a separate Emacs buffer, instead of using the graphical help browser.

Executing C-c C-h on a class name, for example Out, results in this:

SClang: No help for "Out"

On the other hand, executing the same command when highlighting Blip yields a help file.

The path of the help file for Blip contains very few results:

> tree -L 1 ~/.local/share/SuperCollider/Help/Classes
~/.local/share/SuperCollider/Help/Classes
├── Blip.html
├── chebyshevpolynomials.png
├── CombN.html
├── Event-default-note.png
├── File.html
├── IdentityDictionary_01.png
├── IdentityDictionary_02.png
├── IdentityDictionary_03.png
├── IdentityDictionary_04.png
├── IRand.html
├── LFNoise1.html
├── Line.html
├── Linen.html
├── Pan2.html
├── PMOsc.html
├── SinOsc.html
├── Slew.html
└── TRand.html

Executing sclang-index-help-topics interactively in Emacs doesn't appear to add any additional help files to the above path.

Interestingly, sclang-vars.el.in from the project source (initially installed via sudo apt install supercollider-emacs) seems to indicate that the system help files are located relative to "Help"

(defconst sclang-system-help-dir "@PKG_DATA_DIR@/Help"
  "Installation dependent help directory.")

Whereas the system help files on my machine are at /usr/share/SuperCollider/HelpSource. I attempted to build scel from source to account for this change but it did not resolve my issue.