ExDoc v0.20: Keyboard shortcuts, autocompletion, full-text search, and more!

ExDoc v0.20 has been released with many exciting new features: keyboard shortcuts, search improvements, and more! At Plataformatec, we are particularly happy and proud to have contributed and sponsored some of the work behind this new release.

Let’s take a look at some of the new capabilities. You can see them live at hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/ too!

Keyboard shortcuts

You can now press s to focus the search bar, c to expand or collapse the sidebar, n to switch between light and dark mode. Last but not least, press ? to see all available shortcuts.

Search improvements

Two of the most exciting new features are search autocompletion and full-text search. As you type in the search box, suggestions for existing modules, functions, callbacks, etc will show up. And if you want to search for a specific phrase across the whole documentation – that works too!

Versions switcher

You may have seen on previous screencasts that there’s a little arrow near the project version and that’s finally the ability to switch between documentation versions:

This feature is still a bit rough around the edges and in particular if you go to documentation generated with previous ExDoc versions there’s no going back because there was no version switcher back then!

Other changes

This release brings other improvements and bug fixes. For a full list of changes, see the CHANGELOG .

Thank you!

Special thanks to @SaneSquid , @peillis , @michal_lepicki and all the other contributors that made this such a great release.