ri-emacs has been around for a while. It hooks up Ruby's "ri" command to emacs so you can get the output into an emacs buffers. I've debugged it for myself over the years. It seems to break easily. Right now, I have it working for Ruby 1.9.1 on emacs 23.1 on Mac OS X. It is on github here: http://github.com/pedz/ri-emacs The one feature I've added are click-able "links" or "hot spots" in the output. For example, if you get the ri page for the String class, each method will be click-able. Clicking on "to_i" for example will do an "ri" for String#to_i Enjoy pedz -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.