Sometimes you simply don’t have access to the internet, maybe you’re on a train and have no wifi, or are unwilling to pay such extortionate prices. So what would you do when you need the php manual? Hopefully you have installed pman, and if you have, then this plugin displays the output from pman within the Sublime Text 2 editor. It enables the user to get the manual page for the currently selected word in the editor, or simply where the cursor is. It also can ask the user what to search for by showing an input dialog box.

Due to formatting issues, this plugin is currently only available for the Linux/Mac version of Sublime Text 2 at the moment. I’ll be on the lookup to see if I can achieve the same formatting natively to python, but for the time being, it will have to do.