On 2005-01-16, Ilmari Heikkinen <kig / misfiring.net> wrote:
>    The IHelp (Interactive Help) package provides contextual help for
>    objects and methods by using ri.

That's great, I've just been whining about ruby lacking docstrings, it's
just takes us as close to that as possible! Thanks!

Is there a way to get the formatted help (in either format), without
superflouos conversions?

I could do 

rio=IHelp.ri_driver.instance_variable_get(:@options)
rio.use_stdout=true

and then maybe I could capture the output somehow, but that's a bit too
much hack. (I want things like concatenating various help informations,
like the help for all the String methods.)

Regards,
Csaba