✨ Add macOS Help Book Integration
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- macos, swift
- Domain
- desktop, documentation
Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is identified in the issue. Start by reviewing CodeEdit’s macOS app packaging and Apple Help Book requirements, including Help Viewer integration, localization, and hiutil indexing. Define completion as a packaged Help Book that opens in Help Viewer and supports the requested search and localization behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Description
Add native macOS Help Book integration to CodeEdit.
Currently, CodeEdit does not provide built-in documentation or Help Viewer integration.
Adding a Help Book (.help bundle) would allow users to access offline help content via the system Help Viewer, just like Apple's own apps.
Alternatives Considered
No response
Additional Context
Modern macOS apps like Xcode and Finder still use Help Books for user documentation.
It also supports localization and indexing (hiutil) for search.
Would be great to integrate this in a future release.
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- Swift
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- 23k
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